Vann

House, formerly farmhouse. The original building was a four-bay timber-framed hall-house of around 1540, with a red brick parlour wing added to the south in 1689. From 1908 onwards, the architect W.D. Caröe adapted the farm complex into a house for his own occupation. He linked a 18th-century barn, cart shed and pigsties to the north-west of the original farmhouse by means of a new wing to the north-east. The building now has an H-shaped plan, with the 16th-century range forming the cross bar of the 'H' and a wing extending at right angles to end, forming an L-shaped entrance court to the north. The timber-framed range to the centre is clad in brick to the west and has exposed flaming with painted brick infill to the east. The building features an old tiled roof with a tall brick chimneystack.

The main 1540 house stands two storeys with four windows. The first floor to the east has an original diamond-mullioned window and two imitations by W.D. Caröe. The ground floor has early 20th-century bays and a six-light mullioned and transomed window. The west side has a lean-to with a diamond-panelled door. To the south sits the circa 1689 parlour wing, built in red brick with a tiled roof, hipped except to the east which is gabled and tile-hung. This wing rises two storeys and attics with two windows, featuring cross-mullioned windows. W.D. Caröe added a two-storey brick extension in matching style to the south. An early 20th-century link block to the north is two storeys, part brick and part weatherboarded with tiled roofs and casement windows, with an attached 1733 lead water tank to the east. The north-east wing by W.D. Caröe has stone piers on the ground floor with seat recesses and an attached stone and wood pergola, with a weatherboarded first floor decorated with large zinc nails. This wing has casement windows and a canted first-floor bay hung with shingles facing south. To the north-west is a one-storey weatherboarded link, originally 18th-century cart sheds and pigsties, leading to a taller 18th-century former barn. Caröe converted this barn into a Great Hall, adding a gallery and chimneystack to the east. The barn is weatherboarded and decorated with large zinc nails, with a half-hipped tiled roof and casement windows.

Interior features are remarkable. The 1540 house has an open fireplace to the ground-floor north room retaining a 17th-century spit and crane. A spectacular plaster ceiling of around 1620, removed from a house at Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, is installed in the hall. The building features a built-in settle, a built-in sideboard constructed by Caröe from architectural fragments, and 1930s sliding panelling to close off the hall and stairs in winter. The 1689 wing contains an original staircase with turned balusters and square newel post. Original plank and two-panelled doors with metal finger plates by Caröe are present. Each floor has a panelled room and the ground floor features an original fireplace with Delft tiles.

The Great Hall is of five bays with an angled queen strut roof with through purlins, some staggered. The walls are lined with elm boards decorated with large zinc nails. The northernmost part was used as a billiard room and retains early 20th-century metal pendant lighting. An unusual built-in cupboard is present. The gallery built out to the east has reused timbers and a brick fireplace. The north-east wing contains a Caröe staircase with turned balusters and shaped end post, and features a resited Jacobean mantelpiece of 1619 with the initials W P M.

The grounds of Vann are registered in the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Interest in England, Part 40: Surrey, Grade II.