High Barn

SU 94SE BUSBRIDGE C.P. HASCOMBE ROAD

4/102 High Barn 2/7/71 II

House. 1902 by Sir Robert Lorimer for the Hon. Stuart Playdell Bouverie with additions of 1926 by Walter Godfrey. Coursed Bargate stone block with tile-on- edge dressings and plain tiled roofs, wept out to eaves. Rectangular main block with parallel projecting rectangular ranges to front, lower wing canted at 45 degree angle to rear left. Two storeys with attics on main house, single storey and attics to service ranges and wing to left. Corbelled,cross-ridge stacks, one to centre of each front range, two on main house and two on side wing. Entrance front:- Recessed centre range with projecting ranges to either side. Left hand range with three wood framed, leaded casements on the first floor, one through-eaves flat roofed dormer, and one attic casement under large gable. The majority of windows under tile-on-edge lintels, 5 across the ground, floor with the- centre ones mullioned and transomed. Right hand range with irregular fenestration. One between-floors window to left, and one small case- ment on each floor of hip-roofed,square projection to right. Angle bay window in splayed sided recess to left with continuous mullioned and transomed leaded fenestration on both floors and lead apron between decorated with heraldic devices. Central recessed bay:- projecting break to middle under scrolled and shaped pediment with tile-on-edge quoining. Small segmental mouldings on eaves parapet to either side, and horizontal tile bands below. One leaded,mullioned and transome window to either side on each floor, and central stone panel to first floor with heraldic devices. Egg shaped leaded attic window on gable with "sunburst" pattern of radiating bands of tile-on-edge decoration. Arched double doors to centre in smooth ashlar surround and under tile-on-edge decorated head. Right hand return front:- hipped roof to left with gablet, hip extending out over first floor wooden balcony on four braces. Rear return wall has angle bay with lead apron, dated 1902, between upper and lower windows. Arched entrance below. Rear elevation - battering angle buttress to left, double arched porch recess to ground floor on return wall and rear wall. Square bay under hip roof to left of centre. Windows to right under tile-on-edge lintels. Wing canted to side with one keel-shaped gable to rear and two on front of service range. The house shows the strong influence of Lutyen's houses in Munstead, a mile away.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.304.

Listing NGR: SU9904340566