Lollesworth Farm

Built in the early 16th Century and extended by Carew Raleigh in the 1600s. The Lollesworth estate is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

This Grade II listed house dates from the early 1500s, but there is evidence of an earlier medieval hall house here with a farmyard. Carew Raleigh, son of Sir Walter, added the timber-framed wing, which is still visible. In 1677, the house was rebuilt in brick, but the Raleigh wing was untouched.  The new house faced away from the farmyard, to the west. 

The Lollesworth estate is mentioned in the Domesday Book as a sub-manor of West Horsley. It lists the resident as a hunter named ‘Kettle.’ Later the family name became ‘Le Hunte,’ then just ‘Hunt.’ In 1484, the 2ndLord Berners of West Horsley Manor exchanged land with the Hunts, who moved to Bookham. 

In 1628, Carew Raleigh, son of Sir Walter Raleigh, was married to Lady Phillippa Ashleigh, a wealthy widow from East Horsley. Carew bought Bishops Manor in East Horsley and Lollesworth Farm. In the 1640s, he inherited West Horsley Manor from his uncle, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton Carew. Carew’s sons, Walter and Carew spent some time at Lollesworth, but Parish Records for 1660 record their death from a ‘pestilential fever,’ along with Walter’s little daughter ‘Henereta.’ They are buried with Sir Walter Raleigh’s embalmed head (last seen in 1703) in the Nicholas Chapel of St. Mary’s, West Horsley.