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Broadoaks Estate, Surrey JUNE 2013

Southside assassin

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Visited this as our last port of call on a day out in surrey,

This place is really stunning but very stripped out. A nice lil mooch all the same,

Seems they are on the ball here now, with a lot of rooms locked up so didnt get to see everywhere,

Built in 1876 by Ernest Seth-Smith for his elder brother Charles, incorporating part of an older house on the ground floor, in 1898 the house was sold to Sir Charles Tennant, wealthy industrialist and patron of the arts who, aged 75, had just married his 2nd wife Marguerite who was to bear him 4 children. The main Tennant property was in Scotland but this house appears to be an out of London house for entertaining, Surrey becoming very popular at the time. The brewery owning Charrington family owned Broadoaks from 1911 to 1946 when it was sold to the Ministry of Supply. In 1948 it housed the Army Operational Research Group and was in military occupation until 1996.

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Lovely combination of write up and pics

A cracking house with the oddest and out of place exstention ive ever seen.

Thanks for the share

(y)

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Tis a beauty this place loved the lake very clean and house is bang tidy :)

 

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Great shots mate, love the fire surround in here

Is that friggin smoke detector still bleeping???

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Looks a good splore chuck, nice set of pics there :)

 

Southside assassin

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Thanks for the comments,

The extension here is ugly i thought, very out of place. a good chunk of it was being demo'd,

haha smoke detector still beeping upstairs yeah.

 
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Nice set there still retaining some interesting details, well taken. Liked that wee summerhouse. Fae the look of those gardens I'd say they're pretty active in looking after this place.

 

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great pictures:) took a mooch round this place this weekend as part of our multi location trip ,absolutly stunning inside ,and yes the smoke detector upsatirs is still bleeping away :rolleyes:

 
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