A HISTORY OF SURREY 



Soon after this, in 1529, Sutton Place near Guildford was built. 

 This is the finest specimen of the use of terra cotta and brick in England, 

 and in colour at least far surpasses the other leading example at Layer 

 Marney in Essex ; although the two houses were built about the same 

 time the work is curiously dissimilar. 



About this period bricks began to be freely used for chimneys and 

 for the bases of walls and filling m of panels ; it was some time however 

 before the walls of ordinary houses were in this county built of brick 

 except in the London districts. How little its use and advantages were 

 understood is shown by the fact that timber bond continued to be used 

 and prescribed up to modern times, to the infinite ruin of buildings. 



In the south-west of the county there is an interesting class of 

 buildings composed of the rough Bargate stone and ornamental brick- 

 work ; the Bargate filling corresponds to the flint found in other coun- 

 ties. The buildings are so straightforward and free from undue straining 

 after style as to be well worthy of attention. 



The two best examples are the two houses in the High Street of 

 Godalming ; of these the back of one, which is dated 1663, is shown 

 (Fig. i) ; the projection of the brickwork in these examples is only 

 from I to 1 1 inch. A house by the mill at Shalford is of this kind of 

 work and is somewhat like Slyfields Manor, built about 16 14, although 

 the capitals of the pilasters at Slyfields are unusually bold. 



What is left of the Old King's Head at Dorking has remains of 

 similar cornices and other brickwork and transomed and muUioned win- 

 dows composed entirely of bricks. At 

 Farnham are the remains of the Town 

 Hall, which must have been a very ornate 

 little building (Fig. 2) : unfortunately 

 the street front, which is said to have 

 borne the date 1657, ^^^ ^^^^ taken 

 down. There is a very pretty front of 

 fancy brickwork of about this date at 

 Crossways farm, Abinger, apparently 

 planted on to an older timber house. 



Pendell house, opposite Pendell 

 Court, is the work of Inigo Jones, and 

 the same artist is said to have designed 

 the south front of Sanderstead Place ; 

 the pilasters and cornices resemble some 

 of his work, but he had certainly nothing 

 to do with it if the date 1676, said to be 

 on it, is coaeval. 



Leapale house at Guildford is dated 1684, and is of a kind of which 

 various specimens are to be found (Fig. 3). The little garden house was 

 apparently attached to the garden which was afterwards in the occupation 

 of the Martyr family, who held it in conjunction with 25 High Street, 

 on the other side of the Town ditch now represented by North Street, 



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I'owN Hall, Farnham. 



