Alfold House

TQ 03SW ALFOLD C.P. LOXWOOD ROAD

9/17 Alfold House 9/3/60

II*

Hall house. Early C16 with C16 and C17 extensions. Timber framed, underbuilt in brown brick to ground floor left with whitewashed render infill above; close stud framing with whitewashed render infill to ground floor right, wide panel framing above. Plain tiled roof to left with hip and gablet. Horsham slab roof to right over west wing. L-shaped, wing projecting to right. Two storeys with corbelled rebuilt stack to left and fine C17 offset stack to right decorated with diamond panels. Gable end of right hand wing with original scalloped bargeboards and jettied first floor on moulded bressumer and end brackets. One central leaded window to first floor flanked by single light windows below. Central planked door on ground floor. Braced crown post in gable roof. Left hand return front of wing - one window on each floor and 3 framed bays deep. Left hand range - three bays with arch bracing to first floor left. Two windows on the first floor and two windows below. Double doors to left with four-centre arched head. Interior:- Substantial framing exposed. Crown-post hall.

V.C.H. SURREY (Vol. III) (1967 Edn). p.77.

Listing NGR: TQ0398634109