Tadworth Court

TQ 25NW TADWORTH STREET 3/25 Tadworth 12.8.83 Tadworth Court

GV I

Country House now hospital. c1700 in English Baroque manner. Built in mixed red and brown brick with red brick dressings to wings; rustic quoins and stone dressing to centre. Hipped slate roof with off ridge chimneys. Main part 2 storeys with attic and basement. 11 bays, central 5 in break with steep (and richly decorated) pediment, containing enriched bullseye and ornament with heavy modillions. 2 dormers. Flush framed glazing bar sashes throughout, 1st floor centre with flanking scrolls. Central doorway up D plan flight of 7 steps with stone balustrade. Diagonally set corinthian doorcase with swan neck pediment panel door. 3 bay wings with rubbed brick heads to windows and moulded brick bands and modillion cornice broken forward over pilaster strips. Single storey bay to left hand with blocked archway and ball finial to parapet. To garden, salient feature is full height angled bay. Interior: 2 storey hall with high panelling and rococo plasterwork above including festoons, c1750. Panelled ceiling with central wreathed oval c1700. Gallery at the rear with twisted balusters of the same date. Large late C19 fireplace with twisted marble columns to deep mantelpiece. Open rectangular newel main staircase with twisted balusters and volute and sway tread ends. Vitruvian scroll stucco band on wall above. Boxed room with early C10 panelling, pedimented over doors and neo-Jacobean panelled ceiling.

Listing NGR: TQ2387056468