Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. To the East of the house is the office wing built of cobbles which is not of any distinction and adjoining it a 2nd set of stables and coach-houses probably added by Lord George Cavendish in the early C19.Įxternal links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. The manor of Field Place was bought in 1709 by the London publisher Samuel Manship (1665-1720), passing to his widow Anne and then their son. Just off the main road, it was built in the 16th century. The Withies Inn is one of the oldest buildings in the village. See H Avray Tipping's article in "English Country Homes, Period 5". Compton is a village and civil parish in the Guildford district of Surrey. The interior of the house has good plaster work on the walls, also on a ceiling in 1 of the bedrooms, 5 chimney pieces, doorcases, staircase etc. This is a canted bay with an iron balcony round it on the 1st floor and a curved bay on the ground floor with 4 Doric columns supporting the entablature - 1 between each window.
Compton place buildings windows#
The South or garden front has 13 windows, a slight projection at each end and a bay of 3 windows in the centre.
The North front has 9 windows and 6 dormers a large 3 light sash window in the centre of the 1st floor and the same on the ground floor of the wings and a large porch with 4 Doric columns and an iron balcony above. Originally red brick, stuccoed in the early C19.
It is an E shaped building consisting of a centre portion and 2 projecting wings. The present house was built in 1726 for Sir Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington (c1674-1743), on the site of a Jacobean house which was remodelled by the architect Colen Campbell (1676-1729). Extensively altered and stuccoed circa 1800 for Lord George Cavendish (1754-1834 - later 1st Earl of Burlington of the second creation). This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on
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