Cherry Hill, Virginia Water

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Cherry Hill, Virginia Water
  • Holthanger
  • Southern Court
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Location of Cherry Hill, Virginia Water in Surrey
TypeHouse
Location Virginia Water
Coordinates 51°23′45″N0°36′10″W / 51.39595°N 0.60286°W / 51.39595; -0.60286
OS grid reference SU 97293 67248
Area Surrey
Built1935
Architect Oliver Hill
Architectural style(s) Modernist
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated18 August 1986
Reference no. 1294180

Cherry Hill (formerly Holthanger and Southern Court), [1] is a modernist style house on the Wentworth Estate in Virginia Water, Surrey, England, designed by architect Oliver Hill and completed in 1935. Originally called Holthanger, it was renamed Southern Court and subsequently Cherry Hill.

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The property was commissioned by Katherine Hannah Newton, a wealthy single woman, whose family company, Newton, Chambers & Co., was one of England's largest industrial companies. Unlike the surrounding Walter George Tarrant houses being built on the Wentworth Estate at the time, Modern Movement houses such as Holthanger were expensive "one-off" solutions designed to satisfy the needs of private individuals and included provision for motor cars, sophisticated kitchen and heating and electrical equipment and for accommodating domestic staff.

Oliver Hill design

The building is a two-storey house built of brick and rendered white with a flat roof and a blue tinted cylindrical water tower as a roof feature. The plan is a shallow curve which took into account the Scots pines trees to the north of the site. A projecting semi circular fully glazed staircase tower rises to the full height of the building enclosing a grand circular staircase. The central plan figure extends at each end with ancillary accommodation in two wings. To maximise the sunlight and the views, all of the principal rooms were located on the south elevation. The ground floor living room, semi circular sun room and kitchen space are all recessed at ground floor forming a loggia to either side, and accessed from the dining room with the first floor accommodation above supported on slender circular concrete 'piloti'. The house is set back from the road with a winding drive and dense landscaping that keeps it hidden from public view. Marion Dorn, the textiles designer, designed the original curtains for the property. [2]

The property was featured in an American exhibition titled "Modern architecture in England" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1937. [3] [4]

Grade II listed by English Heritage in August 1986, [5] it is the only remaining listed building on the Wentworth Estate following the demolition of Greenside in 2003. [6]

Alterations

In 1968 permission was granted for the garage to be converted to a living room and for a roof enclosure to terrace to form a garage. In 1972, a horse stable and tack room were permitted. Between 2009 and 2015, permission was granted for a detached garage block, for the wings of the main house to be demolished, rebuilt and extended incorporating basement accommodation and for landscaping works to be carried out. The previous extensions were removed, the interior was restored and the ground-floor was reformed.

The original form and central plan arrangement of the principal rooms of the house remains largely intact together with the original curved staircase, slender steel framed curved stair window and curved timber handrail detail to the top of the central curved baluster wall.

Previous owners

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