Thorncroft Manor

Heritage listing

Details 1293/3/166 07-SEP-51 THORNCROFT DRIVE (North side) Thorncroft Manor (Formerly listed as: DORKING ROAD Thorncroft Manor) GV II* Manor house, now offices. 1772, by Sir Robert Taylor, for Henry Crabb Boulton; enlarged and altered. White painted render (probably on brick) over a flint plinth (probably formerly rendered); slate roof. L-shaped plan formed by a rectangular double-depth main range on a north-south axis with an integral wing to the rear of the north end. Two storeys over a high basement, 5 bays, symmetrical, facing east. The basement, of slobbered flint, has windows with flint surrounds roughly keyed for former rendered finish, and altered glazing. The central entrance, up 9 steps with rusticated ashlar side walls and simple latticed wrought-iron railings, has a wide Roman Doric doorcase with engaged columns distyle in antis, triglyph frieze with guttae and mutules (these unusually furnished with sets of guttae), and pediment with similar mutules, a round-headed doorway with double doors, and narrow sashed side windows; above the pediment is a small 2-light casement flanked by single-light casements; otherwise, the ground floor has tall 8-pane sashed windows with ornamental blind-hoods, and the 1st floor has 9-pane sashes; dentilled cornice and hipped roof with 3 inserted dormers and 2 ridge chimneys. The ground floor of the 4-bay left return wall is mostly covered by extensions, and the 1st floor has two 6-pane sashes flanked by blind windows. The 6-bay right-hand return wall has a full-height canted bay in the 3rd, and fenestration matching that of the front. The rear of this wing has a round-headed doorway to the right, under a semicircular porch approached by a flight of 9 steps protected by elegant wrought-iron bar railings terminating in wreaths; o

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.