Description

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SU9949SW
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GUILDFORD
THE MOUNT (north side)
No 18 (Mount Manor Cottage)

GV
II
Outbuilding, now house. C17 timber frame with C18 and C19 cladding and C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Timber frame, clad, with pebble-dash render and upper floor tile hung with fish scale tile banding. Plain tile roof. Three storeys to road, two storeys at rear due to sloping ground. Two-cell timber-frame house gable-end to road, with C19 inserted central fireplace and C19 addition to rear.

Road front: a twelve-pane sash to each of the three floors, the arches of the soffits of brick; Central cross-ridge stack. Part-glazed door under bracketed pent roof to right return; rest of right return blind, addition at right end is of brick in flemish bond with some blue headers and has one small window.

Left return: two small C20 two-light leaded casement at left end: addition, set back, further left, has board door with two, two-light windows to left and a three-light window above all small paned.

C20 flat-roofed bathroom addition further left not of special interest; gable end of older range has part-glazed double door and a twelve-pane sash above.

Interior: the framing, on the two upper floors, comprises jowelled posts, strait braces, rail, wall plate and cut-through tie-beams; the wall plate and some other members have chamfered arrises with lamb's tongue stops and on ground floor one post has a pyramidal-stopped chamfer.

A painting of 1849 shows the item as a brick building with a two-storey pitching window recess to two lower floors and an arched opening in gable.

(R. Chamberlain, Guildford, town under siege (1987), cover).

Listing NGR: SU9928349321

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26280369

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets