Description

TQ 04 NE ALBURY C.P. NEW ROAD
Albury Park

5/17 Albury Park
14.6.67

GV II*

House. C16 origins on older cellars, rebuilt by John and George Evelyn
in C17, altered circa 1700 and extended by Sir John Soane in 1800,
further altered by Hakewill in the early C19 and remodelled by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin in 1846 - 1852, possibly with the assistance of his son Edward Welby Pugin. Galleted ironstone with brick dressings and plain tiled roofs. In Tudor Gothic style.

Entrance front: Three storeys with attic storey in taller tower to right
end. Battlemented parapets obscuring the roofs. Multiple rubbed and cut
brick stacks in varying patterns to ends and centre, some of the 63 chimneys
on the house - its main feature - each of different design. Nine bays with
string courses over ground and first floors. Buttressed two-bay break to
left and right end, brick dressed casement fenestration with 7 windows
across first floor and 9 windows above. One large stone dressed casement
window to left of centre. Six larger windows to ground floor, stone dressed
and with arched stone lights to recessed entrance bays. Arched door to
right of centre, further door to right.

Left hand return front: (North side facing gardens) Two storeys and attics
with 4 gabled dormers alternating with chimneys. Two storey, spindly porch
to left with octagonal angle piers and brick finials. Chamfered arched brick
surround under label moulding with shields over.

Rear: (East elevation) Square tower to left with angle bay to ground and
first floors. Single storey service wings to right hand side.

Interior: Remnants of earlier remodelling survive.
Library - modelled by Evelyn with C17 brick and stone fireplace, dentilled
eaves with egg and dart pattern.
Hall - Soane staircase survives, one arm winding around a narrow oblong well.
Drawing Room - Flaxman fireplace recently reinstated. Marble with caryatids
and scroll and flower work.
The house is set out in grounds laid out by John Evelyn.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971), p.93.
COUNTRY LIFE: AUGUST 25 and SEPTEMBER 1 1950, pp.598 and 674.

Listing NGR: TQ0638447696

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Albury Park at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4712857

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Recommended Books

• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  For the Record
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)