Milton Court
Milton Court, at the far west of the town of Dorking, is a 17th-century country house in Surrey. The court was expanded and substantially rebuilt by the Victorian architect William Burges and is a Grade II* listed building. The listing includes the attached forecourt walls, balustrading, terrace, piers, urns and stone-carved ball finial.[1]
Originally a priory, the estate was granted to George Evelyn, father of the diarist John Evelyn at the Protestant Reformation. George Evelyn was lord of the adjoining manor of Wotton, Surrey where the family had established themselves at Wotton House. In the nineteenth century, the court was bought by Lachlan Mackintosh Rate, a wealthy lawyer, banker and philanthropist. He employed William Burges to undertake substantial rebuilding.[2] Working in an ornate Jacobean style, Burges added twenty rooms, with elaborate fireplaces and ceilings. Perhaps the most successful is the famed Flower room, formerly Mrs Rate's boudoir. Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as "a picturesque seven-bay house with shaped gables".[3]
The house is now the UK headquarters of the health insurance company Unum, which has worked to restore the house and its interior decoration.[4]
Notes
- ^ Historic England. "Milton Court, including attached forecourt walls, balustrading, terrace, piers, urns and ball finial (Grade II*) (1230137)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
- ^ Lyall 1993, p. 4.
- ^ Pevsner & Nairn 1962, p. 368.
- ^ Lyall 1993, Introduction.
References
- Lyall, Sutherland (1993). Milton Court - Heritage Regained. Dorking, Surrey: Unum Limited.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Nairn, Ian (1962). Surrey. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books.
Further reading
- Cattermole, Paul, A History of Milton Court & Part of the Manor of Milton (2011) Unum Limited
- Mordaunt-Crook, J William Burges and the High Victorian Dream (1981) John Murray
External links
- The Victorian Web, William Burges: An Overview (2007)
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- Alfred Burges (father)
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- Ceccardo Egidio Fucigna (sculptor and collaborator)
- Axel Haig (collaborator)
- Horatio Walter Lonsdale (chief artist)
- Thomas Nicholls (main sculptor)
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