Duncombe House

Built in 1867 to replace a nearby 17th Century farmhouse it has been in commercial use since the 1930’s.

Duncombe House was built in 1867 by Lord Lovelace and is now a commercial building, home to insurance brokers CR Toogood & Co Ltd. It was originally called the new Duncombe Farm House, replacing the nearby old Duncombe Farm House which dates back to 1627 and which belonged to the Archbishop of Canterbury - that building still exists as nearby Duncombe Cottage. 

The new Duncombe Farm House served as a cake shop and tea rooms from the early 1930’s. It has been owned by CR Toogood & Co Ltd and known as Duncombe House since 1961.

Duncombe House displays all the characteristic Lovelace decorations with a string course of clay tiles with impressed rose shapes, distinctive dentils, metal windows and the Lovelace family crest. 

This Grade II listed building lies close to Ockham Road North at the northern end of East Horsley. It is the first Lovelace building to be seen by new visitors arriving from that direction, giving an emphatic demonstration they have indeed reached “the Lovelace village”.