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Greyfriars

A Grade II* Listed Building in Wanborough, Surrey

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2262 / 51°13'34"N

Longitude: -0.6467 / 0°38'47"W

OS Eastings: 494597

OS Northings: 148313

OS Grid: SU945483

Mapcode National: GBR FCM.5B6

Mapcode Global: VHFVL.QFZV

Plus Code: 9C3X69G3+F8

Entry Name: Greyfriars

Listing Date: 13 December 1984

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1029612

English Heritage Legacy ID: 288184

Also known as: Greyfriars, Puttenham
Wancote
Merleshanger

ID on this website: 101029612

Location: Guildford, Surrey, GU3

County: Surrey

District: Guildford

Civil Parish: Wanborough

Traditional County: Surrey

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Surrey

Church of England Parish: Seale, Puttenham and Wanborough

Church of England Diocese: Guildford

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Description


SU 94NW WANBOROUGH C.P. HOGS BACK

8/120 Greyfriars

GV II*

House. 1896 by C.A. Voysey for Julian Sturgis, extended to the west in 1913/14 by
Herbert Baker. Whitewashed roughcast with smooth ashlar dressings, hipped slate
roof swept out at eaves. 2 storeys and attic in gables and under flat lead roofed,
leaded casement dormers. Multiple ridge stacks to left end, left of centre, right of
centre,and right end. Tiled pentice drip-course over ground floor, deep boarded
eaves. Stone dressed leaded casement fenestration. Entrance front: irregular broken
roof line. Hipped 2 storey range to left 3-windows on first floor and large battering
buttresses to right. Steep gable over narrow bay the other side of the buttress 2
windows on the first floor and one large mullioned and transomed window below.
Taller square tower to centre with roundel window over 4 first floor windows, irregularly
placed, and ground floor door. Gabled bay and wing to right with first floor windows
in continuous strip, 4 windows below. Slight projection, chamfered, to right end.
Main entrance to right of centre in chamfered edge, stone, recessed porch with block
modillion hood.

Garden front: large gable to left end with slits in apex. 3 dormer windows buttressed
to right end. Irregular leaded casement fenestration, 9 windows across first floor,
7 below. 2 storey square bay to left with continuous window strip on both floors,
smaller square bay to right. Single storey extension to left end. Return wall to
right end with arched door giving access to service court.

Interior: some fittngs survive, mainly locks and keys. Board doors. Wood and stone
fireplace surrounds, coved ceilings.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971 pp 267-8)


Listing NGR: SU9459748313

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