Heather Bank
HEATHER BANK, TOWER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244481
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Heather Bank
- Statutory Address:
- HEATHER BANK, TOWER ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244481
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Heather Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEATHER BANK, TOWER ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HEATHER BANK, TOWER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Haslemere
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 88276 35880
Details
TOWER ROAD 1. 5393 (North-West Corner) Hindhead Heather Bank SU 83 NE 7/189 II 2. Circa 1900 large L-shaped house in Art Nouveau fashion. Red brick ground floor with stone dressings. Roughcast above with half-timbered gable ends. Fairly high pitched tiled roof with dormers. Two storeys and attic, irregular. Five bays on the garden front. Stone mullioned and transomed windows in varying shapes. Art Nouveau leaded glazing, some coloured. Projecting ground floor corner bays, and some small 1st floor oriels. Back hall with glazed tiles in plant forms. Tall, red brick entrance tower with battlemented parapet and pyramidal roof. Listed partly because it was the residence of Marie Stopes the celebrated palaeo-botanist and advocate of family planning. She also earned local gratitude by purchasing the Golden Valley and giving it to the local community as perpetual open space.
Listing NGR: SU8827635880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 449583
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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