SALES, LETTINGS & PROPERTY MANAGEMENT • COBHAM, &

Wedgwood House, 3 PainshiIl, Cobham, KT11 1DL Guide price £1,000,000 Freehold

COBHAM OFFICE 4 Anyards Road, Cobham, KT11 2JZ Tel: 01932 868 448 Email: [email protected] www.boycethornton.co.uk

Boyce Thornton Limited. Registered Office: High Street, Oxshott, Surrey KT22 0JP. Director: AJ Boyce FNAEA MARLA. Registered in & Wales No. 3817365. A unique opportunity to acquire a ACCOMMODATION substantial centre portion of a Grade II* Wedgwood House has extensive listed local landmark house in need of accommodation arranged over three floors, complete restoration. The accommodation in addition to a large cellar, in total includes a number of fine rooms including providing 5779 sq ft gross internal area. two magnificent reception rooms. A private The majority of the rooms enjoy an attractive rear garden extends to approximately one outlook over the surrounding parkland with third of an acre. particularly far reaching views from the upper floors. HOW TO GET THERE From the centre of Cobham proceed via the GROUND FLOOR Portsmouth Road to the Painshill Steps up to front door, entrance vestibule roundabout. Turn into the gated entrance with adjacent cloakroom. Double doors on the left before the A3 slip road. The open to the grand reception hall beyond House will be found at the end of the which is an inner hall leading to the drawing driveway. room and kitchen. THE PROPERTY FIRST FLOOR Painshill House is a Grade II* listed building An elegant oval stone staircase leads from completed in 1778 by the owner of Painshill the inner hall to the first floor landing. To the Park. Originally a fine country house the front of the house a large bedroom and main building was later divided into six adjacent dressing room offer potential for a private residences. Wedgwood House master suite, with an additional bedroom retains some of the most noteworthy rooms and former bathroom (currently stripped out) of the original house including a splendid to the rear. There is also an attractive study oval reception hall, an elegant stone on this floor with a roof light over. staircase and a fine drawing room with SECOND FLOOR marble fireplace and tall arched casement A secondary staircase leads from the first doors providing a view of the rear garden. floor to a second floor landing giving access Many original features of the property to two further bedrooms. remain, including functioning window shutters and ornate plasterwork decoration CELLARS to walls and ceilings. Externally there is a Approached via stairs from the inner hall. large garden sloping down to Painshill Park. Large central area with flagstone flooring, Some essential maintenance work has providing access to a storeroom and wine recently been carried out to the property but cellar. There is another large room adjacent the house will require a full programme of leading to a bathroom and workroom with restoration, providing the new owner with steps to the front of the property. the opportunity to restore part of this GARDENS important country house to its former glory. To the rear of the property there is a full width terrace beneath the portico with steps leading down to the gardens which are laid principally to lawn with mature trees, shrubs and evergreen hedging providing seclusion. The garden widens to the rear and offers an open aspect over Painshill Park. To the front of the property the driveway offers residents parking and there are two garages in a nearby block. HISTORICAL NOTES In David Taylor's 'Cobham Houses And Their Occupants. A Thousand Years Of History', he comments 'Although Charles Hamilton (creator of the Internationally renown landscape garden) always intended to build a new house worthy of the park, it took his successor Benjamin Bond Hopkins to appoint Richard Jupp one of the leading architects of the day, to design his new villa. Started in 1774 and built over the next four years the house must have been modern for its time, built at the peak of the Age of Elegance. Indeed Jupp exhibited a drawing of the front elevation at the Royal Academy in 1778.' Overlooking the garden is a Doric columned portico which was removed from the Temple of Bacchus in the park and which has been suggested was designed by the great eighteenth century architect Robert Adam. SAFETY NOTE Due to the current condition of the property Boyce Thornton wish to advise interested parties that some areas of the house could present a safety hazard and in particular parents should be aware that the house is unsuitable for children to accompany them on viewings. You may download, store and use the material for your own personal use and research. You may not republish, retransmit, redistribute or otherwise make the material available to any party or make the same available on any website, online service or bulletin board of your own or of any other party or make the same available in hard copy or in any other media without the website owner's express prior written consent. The website owner's copyright must remain on all reproductions of material taken from this website.