Description

SU 9949 NW GUILDFORD BURY FIELDS (West Side)

7/7 Nos 1 to 15 (consec) 1/5/53 (The Court) GV II Communal house block. 1902 by H. Thackery Turner. Red-brown brick below with colourwashed render above over tiled drip course; steeply pitched, plain-tiled roofs. Half-H shape plan with end wings splayed out. Two storeys and attics in large gabled dormers. Cross-ridge stacks, 3 to each end wing, and 8 paired stacks on front and rear pitches of centre range; all with brick-dentilled corbelled tops. End pier buttresses to inner sides of wings, deep eaves above throughout. Wood-framed casement fenestration with moulded architrave surrounds in dormers, butting into the roof on the jambs. Three, 3-light and one 2-light gabled dormer on south wing, five 3-light and one 2-light dormer on north. Eight 3-light dormers, in 4 pairs either side of stacks, on main range. Three 4-light windows on first floor of south wing with one 3-light window to right and one 2- light window to left. Five 4-light windows on first floor of north wing with one 2-light window in corner. Eight 4-light windows on the first floor of the main range. Five 4-light windows to north, eight on main range and 4 on south. Panelled doors in porch recesses under segmental heads with 3 sets of paired half- glazed doors to main range and single doors in angles. Single 6-panel doors in wings. Small gabled porch on end of north wing with steps up to door with original fittings. One of a number of buildings by Turner in the locality.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND: SURREY (1971) P.291.

Listing NGR: SU9941049146

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