BLACKHEATH HUNDRED 



WONERSH 



created Lord Grantley in 1782. His family held 

 Wonersh Park till 1884, when it was sold to 

 Mr. Sudbury, husband of Mrs. Sudbury, the present 

 owner. The house contains some pictures of note, 

 and i a good example of early I yth-century architec- 

 ture, inclosing the remains of a much older house. 

 On the floor above the state rooms is a long gallery, 

 and the staircase is so placed as to suggest its being 

 part of the original plan. The western wing contains 

 a fine suite of reception-rooms. Sir Fletcher Norton 

 added a library and billiard-room of noble propor- 

 tions, and further additions in the shape of an eastern 

 wing were made about 1836. 



The 'Grantley Arms' public-house is a fine old 

 timbered house, with curiously arched wooden heads 

 to the gable windows. It may be of 15th-century 

 date in part. Plunks, another early house, has a 

 double-gabled front, dating from the end of the i;th 

 or the beginning of the 1 6th century. There is a 

 quatrefoil barge-board here also, and doubtless good 

 half-timber work is behind the present plaster face. 

 The joist-board, of good section, is also a noticeable 

 feature. The rear of the house is of more ordinary 

 character, but a picturesque medley of roofs, gables, 

 and chimneys. 



Other old cottages and houses lie scattered around 

 the lanes and hamlets in Wonersh parish, including 

 good cottages at Blackheath ; a long timber farm- 

 house at Halldish, or Aveldersh ; Northcote Farm, 

 Hull Hatch, an old timber-framed house, and Reel 

 Hall. 



The schools (National) at Norley Common were 

 built in 1840 and enlarged in 1884. The infant 

 school at Lawns Mead was opened in 1890, that at 

 Blackheath in 1892. 



The ecclesiastical parish of Shamley Green was 

 separated from Wonersh in 1 88 1. A Congregational 

 chapel was built there in 1870. 



Wood Hill, in the same parish district, is the resi- 

 dence of Captain Sparkes, R.N., C.M.G., J.P., one 

 of the principal landowners in the whole parish. 

 Longacre is the residence of Sir Charles Cros- 

 thwaite, K.C.S.I. ; Willinghurst of Captain Ramsden, 

 D.L., J.P. 



The original Wonersh Schools, built in 1 840, are 

 in this part of the parish. 



Wonersh is not named in Domes- 

 Mj4NORS day. All the subsequent manors were 

 included in the manors of Bramley 

 and Shalford. 



TJNGLEr or GRE4T T4NGLET (Tangeley, 

 xiii cent.) was originally parcel of the manor of 

 Bramley." In 1238-9 Walter of Tangley and his 

 wife Maud were dealing with land in Worplesdon." 

 In the same years Ernald son of Richard of 

 Tangley was proved to be nephew and heir of John 

 of Burningfold. 13 This Ernald held a messuage and 

 a virgate of land in Bramley of William Brokere and 

 his wife Edith." About 1315-16 Sir Robert Fitz 



BURLEY. Sable a thief 

 argent three tilting spears 

 paleui'sse counter-coloured. 



Pain held ' a tenement called Tangelee ' by lease from 

 Roland Vaux, who held it for life by right of his wife, 

 then deceased. 15 Tangley then came into the posses- 

 sion of the Burley family. John 

 Burley and his wife Agatha 

 were dealing with land in 

 Wonersh, and the service of 

 Richard Tigenor, William 

 Loxley,and others in 1 367-8." 

 In 1542 another John Burley 

 and his wife Katherine were 

 seised of Tangley." In 1545 

 John Burley entailed the re- 

 version of it, after the death 

 of himself and his wife Sybil, 

 on Richard Carrill of Bram- 

 ley. 18 John son of Richard 



Carrill inherited the manor after the death of Sybil, 

 who survived her husband. 19 Thenceforward its de- 

 scent is identical with that of the Carrills' manor of 

 Bramley till 1677, when, at the partition of John 

 Carrill's estates, it was assigned to his daughter Lettice, 

 wife of John Ramsden.* In 1693-4 they sold it to 

 John and Leonard Child." In 1759 John's great- 

 grandson Charles Searle sold the manor to Sir 

 Fletcher Norton," with whose estates it has since 

 descended." 



In 1 808 court leet and court baron are mentioned 

 as appurtenant to the manor." 



The manor-house, where Hester wife of John 

 Carrill lived during her widowhood," is very ancient. 

 It lies in the northern part of the parish, and has been 

 made the subject of innumerable paintings, and has also 

 been well described and illustrated.* 6 The moat by 

 which the present house is surrounded would appear to 

 have been intended for purposes of defence as well as 

 to drain away the water from the house, which lies 

 somewhat low. Remains of stone buildings have been 

 discovered. Within late years the house has twice 

 been enlarged, having been rescued by its late owner, 

 Mr. Wickham Flower, from the somewhat neglected 

 state into which it had sunk as a mere farm-house, and 

 surrounded by flower-gardens and covered walks. 

 The south front, built in 1582 by John Carrill, can 

 challenge comparison with any ancient house of its 

 class in Surrey. This is not, however, the earliest 

 part of the house : although subdivided into three 

 floors in 1582, the hall, of the middle of the 1 5th 

 century, with its original open roof, remains. It 

 was of four unequally spaced bays, and the framed 

 principals of the roof can be seen in the bedrooms. 

 They consist of heavily-cambered tie-beams, I ft. 8 in. 

 deep in the centre by I o in., having under them a 

 four-centred arch of solid timber, 4 in. thick, serving 

 as braces to the massive story-posts, loin, by 9 in., 

 on which the beams rest. A short king-post, with 

 an arched brace 3 in. thick from each face, rises from 

 the centre of the beam to support the collar and Icon 

 beams. The width of this hall was 20 ft., and its 



11 Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Edw. II, 63, where 

 Tangley is said to be ' in eadem tenura 

 de Bromlcgh." 



12 Feet of F. Surr. 23 Henry III. 



18 Chan. Inq. p.m. 23 Hen. Ill, no. 77. 



14 Feet of F. Surr. 9 Edw. I, 1 2. 

 Everard son of Richard Tangley is said to 

 have been the heir of John of Bromfeld, 

 1288-9, Chancellors' R. 17 Edw. I, 20. 



14 Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Edw. II, no. 63. 



> Feet of F. Div. Co. 41 Edw. Ill, 676. 

 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 33 Hen. VIII. 



18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxv, 74. 



19 W. and L. Inq. p.m. 10 Jas. I, xlvi, 9. 

 Exch. Spec. Com. 6485. 



a Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 4 & 5 Will, 

 and Mary. 



M Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, no. 



28 See under Bramley. 



M Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, no. 



I2 3 



u It was said to be much decayed in 

 1670-1. Exch. Dep. Hil. 21-22 Chas. II, 

 26. 



86 By the late Mr. Charles Bailey (Surr. 

 Arch. Coll. iv, 278) ; Mr. Ralph Nevill, 

 F.S.A. (Old Cottage and Domestic Architec- 

 ture in South-west Surr. 82, &c.) ; Messrs. 

 Davie and Green (Old Cottages and Farm- 

 houses in Surr.) 5 and in Country Life (2 1 Jan. 

 1905). 



