The Trust is pleased to share that Surrey Heath Borough Council has officially adopted its new list of locally listed heritage assets. Surrey Heath was one of six Surrey district and borough councils to join the government-funded scheme led by Surrey County Council to identify local heritage sites for inclusion in local lists. The local community was invited to nominate buildings, features, places, and designed landscapes they considered to hold heritage value.
The list will guide the future use and development of these assets. It ensures that owners and custodians are aware of their significance and the contribution they make to the character of Surrey Heath.
View the full document: You can find the descriptions, images, and reasons for inclusion in the Surrey Heath Local Heritage Assets List (PDF).
Surrey Gardens Trust Successes
The Surrey Gardens Trust was delighted to find that the majority of the designed landscapes it had nominated were accepted by Surrey Heath.
Our successful nominations covered a diverse variety of landscapes including:
Charles E Mallows: Two gardens designed by the prominent architect and landscaper at the start of the 20th century.
Percy Cane: Two gardens remodelled by the renowned landscaper in the 1930s.
Sir Joseph Hooker: The gardens to the house of the botanist and Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.
Modern Landscapes: An arboretum featuring monuments, follies, and lakes set out in the 1980s and 1990s.
Historic Tree Avenues Recognized
Two exceptional avenues of trees also feature on the list:
1. Wellingtonia Avenue (Camberley): Stretching over 1 km, this avenue consists of over 200 Giant Sequoia (Wellingtonia) trees planted in 1864. It was preserved in the 1970s within the layout of a new housing development. You can take a drone flight above the avenue on YouTube. Please note that the featured photo is of Wellingtonia Avenue circa creation date of 1890-1900 (Library of Congress)
2. Chobham Place Avenue: A 400m-long, double tree-lined avenue of beech and conifers, once the grand avenue to Chobham Place (now Wentworth Place). This historic avenue is clearly shown on maps dating back to 1729 and 1768. While now part of woodland, it remains clearly visible.
Full List of Gardens Successfully Nominated by Surrey Gardens Trust:
The Camp / Hookers Hill House and gardens (including those now in separate ownership), Westwood Road, Windlesham
Former grounds, gardens, and woodland to Chobham Place (including tree-lined avenue), Valley End Road, Chobham
Frimhurst and gardens, Guildford Road, Frimley Green
High Chimneys gardens, Westwood Road, Windlesham
Lennoxwood gardens, Westwood Road, Windlesham
Highams Park gardens and grounds, Chertsey Road, Chobham
Pennyhill Park Hotel (lodge, gardens, and holly hedge—formerly Pennyhill House), London Road, Bagshot
Former gardens/parkland to Tekels Castle, Tekels Park, Camberley
Wellingtonia Avenue (formerly grounds of Heatherside House), Cumberland Road, Camberley
Gardens/grounds to Westwood House (Westwoods), Westwood Road, Windlesham
Windlesham Arboretum and Old House Farm, South Farm Lane, Windlesham
Nos 1 - 6 Windlesham Park and gardens, and Littlestone (formerly Woodlands House), Woodlands Lane, Windlesham
Photo credit: By Snapshots Of The Past - Wellingtonia Avenue Camberley England, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20122187