Starborough Castle Walls and Garden House
STARBOROUGH CASTLE WALLS AND GARDEN HOUSE, MOOR LANE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1205666
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Starborough Castle Walls and Garden House
- Statutory Address:
- STARBOROUGH CASTLE WALLS AND GARDEN HOUSE, MOOR LANE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2006-03-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/15047/21
- Rights:
- © Mrs Elizabeth Andersen. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1205666
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Starborough Castle Walls and Garden House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STARBOROUGH CASTLE WALLS AND GARDEN HOUSE, MOOR LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- STARBOROUGH CASTLE WALLS AND GARDEN HOUSE, MOOR LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Tandridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dormansland
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ4260244109
Details
TQ 44 SW
10/221
11/6/58
LINGFIELD C.P.
MOOR LANE
Starborough Castle walls and Garden House
II*
Castle walls to moat and garden house. Walls circa 1431 or earlier, garden house
constructed on older foundations and employing old materials in 1754. Converted
into a billiard room in late C19. Moat walls of rough dressed stone rising
just above ground level and enclosing a square mound 50 metres x 50 metres with
round angle tower bases to inner wall. Garden house in north east corner of
mound. Dressed ashlar walls with brick and rubblestone patches, part rendered,
on inner face. Rectangular with diagonal offset angle buttresses, buttresses
to centre of east and west sides and battlemented parapets. Angle spire finials
with crockets, missing on south east and north east corners. One storey over
older vaulted cellars. Angle bay window to centre of north side with one stone
mullioned two-light window below and stone Y tracery in bay windows. Two similar
windows to each of the east and west sides under flat hood mouldings. Remains
of a door to south. Arched planked door in basement. Keystone stone dressed
opening above with inscription above reading:-
"OBSCURO POSITUS LOCO LENI PERFRUAR OTIO" stone panels either side in moulded
surrounds with crests to top half. Inscription to left reads "RESTITUIT JACOBUS
BARROW, 1754" Inscription to right:- "MUNIVIT REGINALDUS DE COBHAM per LICENUIAM
REGIS EDWARDI 3 tij DATE: 18 OCTOBRIS ANNO REG.15. DE MANSO KERNELLANDO 1342" to
right. Central stone roundel above. Small steep open pediment with dog tooth
band across base over gargoyle head.
Remains of castle built by Reginald Lord Cobham, founder of the College in
Lingfield, on the site of and incorporating earlier buildings, dismantled 1648.
Derelict at time of re-survey.
V.C.H.: Surrey Vol. i) p.417, Vol. iv) pp. 302-6, 398-401.
MANNING & BRAY : History of Surrey II p.347
Listing NGR: TQ4260244109
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 287463
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Manning, Owen, Bray, W, The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, (), 347
Malden, H E, The Victoria History of the County of Surrey, (1902), 417
Malden, H E, The Victoria History of the County of Surrey, (1912), 302-306
Malden, H E, The Victoria History of the County of Surrey, (1912), 398-401
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 09-Jun-2026 at 09:14:16.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.