The Tortoise House, Wotton House is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1972. Tortoise house.
The Tortoise House, Wotton House
- WRENN ID
- last-kitchen-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1972
- Type
- Tortoise house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
WOTTON C.P. GUILDFORD ROAD TQ 14NW Wotton Park
4/121 The Tortoise House 7/2/72 Wotton House
GV II
Tortoise house. Circa 1820-30. Portland stone, rubblestone and brick with wooden superstructure and tiled roof. Rectangular. Two storeys. Ionic garden temple of four bays by two with three Ionic columns to sides and Ionic pilaster piers to ends supporting architrave frieze and cornice. Upper storey with open sides divided into bays by thin wooden piers with attached Corinthian pilasters. Flat roof over with overhanging eaves. The upper floor of the house appears to have been used as viewing platform for the tortoises which lived in a pool in the front of the temple. Now in ruinous and near roofless condition. One of the items mentioned in the Gardens of Wotton House included in the "Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England: Part 40 Surrey" at Grade II*. PEVSNER: Buildings of England (1971) Surrey p.544. LUCINDA LAMBTON: Beastly Buildings (1985) P.
Listing NGR: TQ1206046921
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