Additions and alteration to the house in 1903.

Unexecuted designs for new stable buildings and cottage for J. G. Wainwright, 1903.

The house was restored by Jack Warshaw.
 
The walls are roughcast, the windows mostly have stone dressings and the roofs are covered with green slates.

The house is broadly divided into two parts following the lifestyle of the period
with the larger and more impressive family accommodation on one side
and staff accommodation and service areas on the other. (Savills)

Entrance front, Photo by F. Müntzer.
Published in The Studio, vol.34, 1905, p.152,
and in The British Architect, 6th October 1899, p.235.

Norney Grange, photo on savills.co.uk

Norney Grange, photo by Jacques Lasserre on Panoramio

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of John Trotter

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of Dr Peter King

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of Dr Peter King

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of Dr Peter King

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of Dr Peter King

Norney Grange, photo by Graham R Green

Norney Grange, photo by Jacques Lasserre on Panoramio

Norney Grange, photo on savills.co.uk

Norney Grange, photo by Graham R Green

Norney Grange, photo by Jacques Lasserre on Panoramio

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of John Trotter

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of Dr Peter King

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of Dr Peter King

Norney Grange, photo by Jacques Lasserre on Panoramio

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of John Trotter

Norney Grange, photo by Graham R Green

Photo by F. Müntzer.
Published in The Studio, vol. 34, 1905, p.151,
and published in The British Architect, 6th October 1899, p.235.
Photo on paradisebackyard.blogspot.de

Text published in The British Architect, 6th October 1899, p.236.

Norney Grange, The Studio, vol.34, 1905, p.151

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of John Trotter

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of Dr Peter King

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of Dr Peter King

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of John Trotter

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of John Trotter

Norney Grange, photo by Graham R Green

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of John Trotter

Norney Grange, photo by Graham R Green

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of John Trotter

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of Dr Peter King

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of Dr Peter King

Norney Grange, photo by Jacques Lasserre on Panoramio

Norney Grange, photo on savills.co.uk, Rear Exterior

Norney Grange, Garden front, The Studio, vol.34, 1905, p.152

Norney Grange, photo by Jacques Lasserre on Panoramio

Photo by Duncan McNeill for Royal Pavilon, Art Gallery and Museums, Brighton

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of Dr Peter King

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of Dr Peter King

Photo by Graham R Green

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of John Trotter

Photo on primelocation.com, Savills - Country Department

Norney Grange, photo on savills.co.uk, Rear Exterior

Norney Grange, photo on savills.co.uk, The Hall

Norney Grange, photo on savills.co.uk, The Hall

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of John Trotter

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of John Trotter

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of John Trotter

Norney Grange, photo on savills.co.uk, The Hall Landing

The Hall,
contemporary photograph published in Duncan Simpson,
C.F.A. VOYSEY an architect of individuality, fig. 20e, p.50.
RIBA Photographs Collection

Norney Grange, photo courtesy of John Trotter

Norney Grange, photo on savills.co.uk

Norney Grange, photo on savills.co.uk, Window Seat

Norney Grange, photo on savills.co.uk, Library Fireplace

Norney Grange, photo on savills.co.uk, Library

Norney Grange, photo on savills.co.uk, Library

Norney Grange, photo on savills.co.uk

Norney Grange, photo on savills.co.uk, Kitchen

Norney Grange, photo on savills.co.uk, Kitchen

Norney Grange, photo on savills.com, Bedroom

Preliminary design I for Norney (now Norney Grange), Shackleford, Surrey,
for the Rev. Leighton Grane: ground floor plan and elevations,
Link > RIBA Collections

Preliminary design I for Norney (now Norney Grange), Shackleford, Surrey,
for the Rev. Leighton Grane: ground floor plan and elevations,
Link > RIBA Collections
 

Preliminary design II
Link > RIBA Drawings Collection

The bay on the left was later improved (see images above)

The Architectural Review volume 5 - December 1898 to May 1899.
Preliminary design II
Link > RIBA Drawings Collection

Preliminary design II
Link > RIBA Drawings Collection

Ground Floor Plan
Preliminary design II
Link > RIBA Drawings Collection

First Floor Plan
Preliminary design II
Link > RIBA Drawings Collection

Norney Grange, Ground Floor on savills.co.uk (2021)

Norney Grange, plans on savills.com, First Floor and Second Floor (2021)

Sun dial, photo on www.mattersoftaste.wordpress.com

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Voysey and bays under gables

Voysey did not invent bays under gables such as those used at Norney as a new feature or element.
He may have been inspired by earlier examples from Devey and others back to mediaeval times.

Voysey was assistant to Devey in 1880-81.
George Devey (1820 – 1886).

The original design of the gable bay to the left of the entrance front of Norney Grange
was later improved by a Devey bay motif used at
 Calverley Grange, 1865, now Pembury Grange,
 Sandown Park, Pembury, Kent, for Neville Ward
Link > RIBA Drawings Collection     

Devey,
The original Coombe Warren built in 1865,
photo on www.houseandheritage.files.wordpress.

Bays under cross gables were already used
at the mediaeval Old Weavers House at Canterbury A.D. 1500.

Canterbury, The Old Weavers House on the Stour River dates to around 1500,
photo on arttrav.com.

1611,
Bays under cross gables at Ludlow, Town Preacher's House 14 Old Street,
photo by Ben Abel on flickr.

Yelford Manor, late-15th-century,
In the middle there is a bay under a crossgable.
Photo on countrylife.co.uk

Ludlow, photo by Robert on flickr

Shrewsbury, photo by Tony Hisgett on flickr

Ludlow, photo by Ed Webster on flickr

Ludlow, photo by Robert on flickr

Ludlow, The Feathers Hotel, photo by Eddie Crutchley on flickr

Shrewsbury, photo by Tony Hisgett on flickr

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Lodges

Gate Lodge at Elstead Road

 Gate lodge at Elstead Road, from The British Architect, 19th August 1898

Text published in The British Architect, 19th August 1898, p.129

Link > Black & White Photos on flickr taken in 1976

Link > www.artsandcraftsdesign.com (Photos)

The entry in Pevsner's Surrey (with Charles O'Brien, Ian Nairn and Bridget Cherry, 2022) reads:

NW of the church [in Shackleford], a lodge emerges invitingly out of the woods at the S entrance to NORNEY GRANGE, by Voysey, 1897-8 for the Rev. Leighton Grane; the builder Frederick Muntzer as at Greyfriars (Puttenham). The house has typical long, low proportions and typical low-key materials (Westmorland slate, buff roughcast and violent yellow limestone). Big – indeed one of Voysey's largest houses and an early appearance in his oeuvre of an H-plan main house with symmetrical fronts, a major contrast with his proceeding Surrey work at Greyfriars and Lowicks. The design of the entrance front became more ambitious between first design and completion, evolving from relatively calm flat-fronted wings with windows in flush surrounds and a segmentally arched entrance bay to one in which the l. wing has become a two-storey polygonal bow breaking the eaves and carrying a plain triangular gable. The porch is monumental, with the entrance below a great arch framing a circular window, the shape of the arch penetrating the sloping roof behind. This was revised by Voysey at ground floor in 1903 for the next owner, when the smooth curved stone outer vestibule was added below the original semi-circular canopy and the strip of windows to the r. enlarged into a full-height opening. Secondary gables continue the service wing N without fuss. Round the S corner, single-storey square projections with quarter-dome roofs embrace the fireplace recess, which is continued upwards as a solid mass of roughcast banded with stone, the flat stack emerging above a segmental arch. A second bay to the l. is now joined to the first by a door, inserted in the alterations. The garden front is simpler and purely symmetrical, the main part of two more buttressed and bow-fronted wings below gables (a motif incidentally that had enjoyed dubious favour with speculative builders on semi-detached houses long into the 1930s), flanking a single-storey projection and covered veranda. Again, three smaller gables to the N set back from the main part. The N additions are of 1903, unfortunately obscuring the catslide of the N end but terminating in a pretty single-storey servants' hall.

Inside, one of Voysey's most thrilling interiors: a central double-height hall with panelling and square posts carrying exposed purlins, providing a frame for the stair running up to a gallery along the far side. This has a shallow bay at the centre and quarter-bow at one corner; the balustrade has Voysey's favoured closely spaced stick balusters. Circles and segmental curves are everywhere in the details. In the former billiard room, inglenook of a wide arch framing a chimney-breast faced entirely in veiny coloured marble, with the mantelshelf emerging from it in a tiny moulded curve. In the library a delightful brass fire-grate surround on the theme of 'Work' and 'Play' by Thomas Elsley. Terraced gardens, with a thatched stone SUMMERHOUSE at one corner, also by Voysey, 1897, with tall weathervane (cf. Lowicks). The SOUTH LODGE was built first and is enchanting, set at right angles to the road with the end sliding outwards on a deep jetty, propped at the corner by a polygonal stone bay and jettied again above a shallow curved oriel. The second, larger, STABLE LODGE is on a road to the E, completed in 1903.

Description of the House on English Heritage

SU 94 SW SHACKLEFORD CP ELSTEAD ROAD 7/106 Norney Grange GV II*
House. 1897 by C.A. Voysey for the Rev. W. Leighton Grane, extended in 1903 for J.W. Wainwright. Roughcast with yellow limestone dressings, hipped slate roofs. Long rectangular plan with service end to right. Two storeys and attic in gable to left end, two storeys to centre and right with single storey to right end. Half-H shaped section to right with recessed centre and projecting battered and buttressed gable bays to ends. Gable to left jettied on stone brackets. Rendered stack to centre with half-domed hood over bell attached to front, massive offset stack to left end on plinth with quadrant sections flanking shaft. Stone dressed leaded fenestration. Three "breathers" in gable apex, 6-light round bay window rising through both floors, mullioned and transomed on ground floor. Two "breathers" to right hand gable with stone dressed casements, two on first floor and three below. One 4-light window to left of centre and taller 4-light mullioned and transomed window to right of centre in recessed range. Smaller, double gabled bays to right with stacks to ends. One window on first floor of each gable under tiled pentice hoods, two ground floor casements to left and one 6-light ground floor window to right continuing under cornice into single storey range to right end, thus becoming flat-roofed eaves dormer window. Stone projecting entrance porch to centre of recessed bay with open segmental pediment over large leaded oculus. Piers to ends and rounded corners to form D shape on ground floor with niches and windows to sides. Doubled studded doors with strapwork decoration. Original drains with curious billeted crenellations to hoppers.
Garden Front: gabled ends to main range jettied with battering buttresses and round bay windows. Triple-gabled range set back to left end.
Interior: largely intact. Entrance hall, wood panelled with half domed ceiling and gallery landing to rear with square railed balustrade projecting in shallow bow to centre. Original "bird and tree" ventilation grilles and heart shaped keyholes on doors. Panelled library with marble fireplace and original copper and brass surrounds with flower motifs. Green marble chimney breast in end room to left and many other interior fittings remain.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) page 452 R.I.B.A. JOURNAL pp 97-102 March 1971 ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. Vol 72 May 1957 page 240 John Brandon Jones on C.A. Voysey R.I.B.A. JOURNAL page 764 Vol. 38. October 17, 1931. The Work of C.A. Voysey by H.M. Fletcher THE LAST COUNTRY HOUSES (1983) by Clive Aslet.

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Description of Lodge and stable block at Shackleford Road on English Heritage
GV II
Lodge and stable block to Norney Grange. 1903/4 by C. A. Voysey. Roughcast with limestone dressings and slate roofs, some hipped. Two storeys to main lodge with single storey stable range to rear left on square courtyard plan.
Street front: gable to left with tiled band over first floor. One 3- light leaded casement window to first floor. Range set back to right with similar tile band and one through eaves, 3-light, flat roofed window and battering buttress to right end. Ridge stack to rear. Single storey range set back to right with two louvred, square domed lanterns on tapering plinths.
Left hand return front: entrance: irregular hexagonal stack to front right, gable to left. One first floor leaded casement to left and one angle bay window below. Two single-light ground floor windows to right, one either side of chimney stack. Half-glazed door to centre under flat porched hood on braces, decorated with half spheres, continued into gable. Courtyard range set back to left contains double garage doors to single storey rear range, ridge lanterns over.

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Description of the Lodge at Elstead Road on English Heritage

SU 94 SW SHACKLEFORD CP ELSTEAD ROAD
7/107 The Lodge
GV II
Lodge house to Norney Grange. 1897 by C.A. Voysey. Roughcast with limestone dressings and swept slate roofs. Two storeys with gable end to street. Stack to left of ridge at centre of house. Jettied first floor on bracket to left and further jetty to gable apex with three vertical "breathers". Bowed and leaded 5-light oriel window tucked under gable. Jetty to first floor on central brace. Angled window across right hand corner to ground floor right, stone dressed. Right hand return front: (entrance front) corner window continues to left, 5-light casement window to right. Door to left between the windows. Single storey hipped roof extension, lower to right. Left hand return front: buttressed with square bay window to ground floor left.

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  References:

 Wendy Hitchmough, CFA  VOYSEY, London 1995, pp. 80-1, 84-90, 100-5.

 David Cole, The Art and architecture of CFA Voysey : English pioneer modernist architect & designer, 2015.

 Dekorative Kunst, I, 1897, p. 243.

 The British Architect, L, 1898, p. 130; LII, 1899, pp. 234-235.

 Architectural Review, V, 1898, pl. III after p. 240.

 Catherine Sidwell, 'Norney Grange on film and television',
 The Orchard, Number Ten, Autumn 2021, pp.72-80.

 Richard Havelock, 'Norney Grange, near Shackleford, Surrey, 1897',
 The Orchard, Number Ten, Autumn 2021, pp.81-87.

Wendy Hitchmough, CFA  VOYSEY, Phaidon Press, London 1995, pp.84-90, 100-106. 

Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects

C. F. A. VOYSEY by Joanna Symonds, p.41

Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects

C. F. A. VOYSEY by Joanna Symonds, p. 42

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