High Hascombe

SU 94 SE 4/103 3/5/73

BUSBRIDGE C.P. HASCOMBE COURT ROAD High Hascombe

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House. 1896-7. Built as Sullingstead by Sir Edwin Lutyens with Neo-Georgian ballroom added in 1903. Timbered style with rendered infill over whitewashed brick underbuild, tile hung to ends and brick to garden front. Plain tiled roofs, hipped to right on main range with three gables across the front with eaves joined together and swept out. Two storeys and attics under three flat roof and one hipped roof dormer. Cross ridge stacks to right and panelled stack to left. Three narrow breathers, one to each gable, with leaded casement fenestration below. Five windows to first floor, four windows below and one between floors, window wrapping around the corner to the right. Door to ground floor, left of centre, in 4-centred arched surround with date 1897 in spandrels and initials "C & A" over. Ogee bracing on first floor. Two window range to right and lower range set back again to right with hipped dormer, deep eaves and two ground floor windows. Lower extensions to left with hipped and gabled attics and hipped roof parallel range to front left. Door on the return wall. Double gable with arch to base of panelled stack. One first floor sash window to each gable. Round window to ground floor left. Rear:- hipped roofs over tile hung first floor range. Billiard room projecting to left with massive plate glass dormer over three ground floor cambered head sash windows. Originally in a Gertrude Jekyll garden.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.303.

Listing NGR: SU9961640379