Balcombe Place

Balcombe Place is a country house built in 1856 in a Tudor style by architect Henry Clutton for John Hankey of Naylands. In 1899, a single-storey music room was added to the south-west by architect Gerald Callcott Horsley, designed to match the original style.

The house is constructed from limestone ashlar with a stringcourse, and features tiled roofs with tall brick stacks in a Tudor style. The casement windows are adorned with stone mullions and transoms, with some still featuring leaded lights. The layout of the house is irregular, with the main range oriented on a west/east axis, a projecting wing to the north-east, and the music room extending to the west. Attached to the north-east is a C-plan stable range, which has been converted into offices.

The symmetrical south front of the house rises three storeys and is five windows wide. The end window bays project and are topped with gables that have finials, while crenellated canted bays with seven lights each are present on the ground and first floors, along with three gabled dormers in between. Ground-floor windows feature hood-moulds. The north-west front is less symmetrical and includes a porte-cochere. The music room is distinguished by a large semi-circular bay to the south and a crenellated parapet.

Inside, the house boasts a fine staircase from 1856 and notable panelling in the music room from 1899, which was highlighted in 1977. The drawing room features an impressive marble chimneypiece supported by Ionic columns and decorative plasterwork on the ceiling.