The Garth

The Garth is a former parish workhouse with an attached house, and a later house, dating from 1729. It was altered in 1919 by W.H. Godfrey. The building is constructed of red and blue brick in the lower sections, with plain tiled cladding to the first floor on the left, and diamond brick patterning on the right and across the former entrance front. The roof is plain tiled, featuring three rear stacks to the left of centre and right, and one to the right with a beehive top. The main entrance front faces the rear.

The building is two storeys high, with a three-storey gabled bay to the left and a single-storey wing projecting from the front left. It has an attic with two leaded casement dormers, six casement windows across the first floor (the majority leaded), four windows to the ground floor on the left, and a planked entrance door to the left of centre, sheltered by a flat hood supported by volute foliage brackets.

The garden front, formerly the entrance front, features a brick plinth and four leaded gabled casement dormers to the left, with eight leaded casements across the first floor and four on the ground floor. The left return front has an angled bay to the ground floor.

Internally, the building features beamed ceilings with chamfered main beams. The building is noted in Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England, Surrey (1971), page 350.