Corner House Wyvern House

GREAT BOOKHAM CHURCH ROAD TQ 1354 NW (west side) 13/68

7.9.51 No.1 (Corner House) and Wyvern House

GV II

Formerly The Kings Arms, subsequently house and shop, now all offices. C16 or C17, late C18, and C19; altered. Corner House faces Church Road; Wyvern House, attached at the left end, and its associated rear wing, form a range along the north side of Lower Road. Corner House is of pebble-dashed brick, painted white, with red tiled roof. Single depth plan. Two storeys and 3 bays, symmetrical except that all the openings are offset slightly to the left; the central doorway has a wooden porch with 2 slender Tuscan columns and pilasters, plain frieze and moulded cornice, and a door with 4 fielded panels; two 16-pane sashed windows at ground floor and 3 above, all with exposed boxes. Roof swept slightly over the eaves, and chimney at left gable. The rear has a central door, one 16-pane sashed window on each floor, and a small 2-storey extension to the rear of the 1st bay, tile-hung at 1st floor. Interior not of special interest. Wyvern House, forming a cross-wing at the left end, is of 3 builds, the projecting front element being a C19 shop of one unit and 2 storeys, with a large rectangular shop window in the front wall, under a cornice, and a sashed window above; and in the return wall (to Lower Road) a round-headed doorway and window at ground floor and a 4-light casement above. Next to this is one bay of 1½ storeys, of white-painted render on brick (cladding some internal timber-framing) with a coupled sashed window at ground floor and a large transomed 6-light casement in a gableted ½-dormer; and beyond this, a long 2-storey range built of flint, which has a plinth with moulded brick coping, in the centre a small blocked wagon doorway with a timber lintel and hand-made brick quoins, a small blocked window to the right, another at 1st floor to the left, a similar window to the right (not blocked) and an inserted window to the right of this, all these with similar brick surrounds. Chimney stacks on the slope of the roof near the west end and at the east gable. The west gable wall has a doorway on each floor (wooden steps to the upper) and a weather-boarded gable with a 6-pane fixed window. The rear has a high plinth, 2 doorways, and 2 casements at ground floor and 3 above. Interior: the flint-walled range has 2 large stop-chamfered beams at ground floor, and a common-rafter roof with 3 tie-beams and windbraces near the east end; the shorter and lower element next to it has a wall-post and part of a wallplate, and a common-rafter roof with purlins of large scantling.

Listing NGR: TQ1682256503