Blunt House

TQ 35SE OXTED C.P. BARROW GREEN ROAD

6/206 Blunt House II

House, now Clinic. Circa 1886 by J.M. Oldrid Scott for himself. In Neo-Georgian style. Brown brick with red brick dressings; plain tiled hipped roofs with 2 stone banded ridge stacks to left and right of centre. 2 storeys and attic under 5 hipped roof dormers, outer and centre dormers glazing bar sashes in architrave surrounds, dormers left and right of centre casements. Large flat tile hung roof extension above connecting stacks. 5 bays, end bays projecting with brick string course over ground floor and dentilled eaves. Glazing bar sash windows under gauged brick heads; stone keystone to double light sash windows either side of first floor centre, paired, round arched windows to ground floor. Central part glazed door with wooden tracery bars and fielded panels behind doubled outer doors. Architrave surround with voussoirs to top in bonded block rusticated stone porch with Doric columns and guttae frieze surmounted by four spherical finials, approached up a flight of 4 steps with quadrant walls have obelisks. 3 bay lower range to left with mixed casement and sash window fenestration. Single storey extension to extreme left Rear front: 7 bays with end 2 projecting on each side. 5 hipped roof sash window dormers, brick stringcourse over ground floor and brick panels below windows. Balustraded stone terrace across front of ground floor.

Interior: Fine C18 fireplace surrounds with marble Ionic columns and broken pediments Foliage and scrollwork plaster ceilings. Rich modillion overdoors and door surrounds The internal features were brought from Blunt House in Croydon, built c.1760 by Abraham Swan and Richard Peers. The original house providing the model for the design of J.M. Oldrid Scott.

Listing NGR: TQ3844353022