Hoe Farm House

SU 93NE 9/166 9/3/60

HASCOMBE C.P. HOE LANE Hoe Farm House

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House. Early C16 extended in C17 and further enlarged by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1890. Timber framed, clad in sandstone rubble with some colourwashed brick infill to exposed first floor frame to right. Plain tiled roofs, stepping down and half-hipped to right. Two storeys with tall basement plinth to right end. Double, re-built diagonal stacks to left on crowstepped plinth. Two diagonal stacks straddling ridge to right of centre and two front stacks to right of centre with rear stacks to right. Attic in gable end bay to left. One leaded, 3-light window on each floor below; two first floor and one ground floor, 4-light window to centre. One 3-light window on first floor and one 2-light ground floor window under tiled offset and tile hung gable to right. One diamond-pane casement on each floor, including basement to right. Panelled and part glazed door to right of centre between the stacks in gabled brick porch with elliptical arch to front. Timber framed gallery to right hand return front links to coach-house type block by Lutyens, with gabled dormers and leaded fenestration. Interior:- Fine ceiling frame to ground floor left, chamfered joists, moulded beam to left and some panelling. Massive braced Crown post to first floor above with clever staircase fitted in around the old frame by Lutyens. The house was once owned by Winston Churchill and reputedly was where he started his painting.

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

Life of Winston Churchill Vol. III.

Listing NGR: SU9979839535