Description

TQ 0049NW GUILDFORD HIGH STREET
(South Side)

6/124 Nos 274 and 276
1/5/53 (Formerly listed as
No.276 )

GV II

House, now estate agents and offices. Mid C18 with early C19 alterations and
extensions to sides and rear of c.1881. Red brick,clad in colourwashed stucco
with plain tiled roof to front obscured by tall parapet, C19 extensions under
hipped slate roofs. Two storeys and attic under cornice and parapet with end
newels) channelled angle piers and rusticated ground floor on smooth-rendered
plinth,corbelled stacks to left & right. Three bay front with steep central
pediment. Three 6-pane attic sash windows in raised architrave surrounds; key-
stones to outer windows,scrolled keystone to centre, with scrolled corbels to
sills below. Three 12-pane glazing-bar sash windows to first floor in lugged
architrave surrounds with pulvinated friezes over to pediment hoods, outer ones
segmental, central one triangular and with modillions and scrolls flanking frieze,
foliage garlands suspended from scrolls. Square plate glass ground floor windows
with half-oval traceried fans over. Central door of four panels with traceried
and glazed top panel under fanlight, and keystoned voussoir surround. Right hand
return front:- two windows deep with projecting surrounds, the windows at differing
levels indicating the extensions and subsequent alterations. Later C19 wing set
back to right with cross-ridge stack and hip-roofed dormer; moulded eaves to base
of parapet and plate glass sash fenestration. Ground floor shop extensions not of
special interest. C20 extensions to rear not of special interest.
Interior:- Large staircase of early C18 style and some door and window surrounds of
similar date.

Listing NGR: TQ0013849660

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26483206

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living