Description

SU 9949SE GUILDFORD HIGH STREET (South Side)

8/100 Nos 136, 138 and 140

GV II

Houses, now shops below and offices above. Dated 1883 with C2O shop fronts below. Red/orange brick with terracotta and painted stone dressings; plain tiled roofs obscured by parapets and gable. Four storeys with rendered plat bands at first, second, third and parapet heights. Stone-coped kneeler to ends of parapet and decorating gable to centre which contains diamond-shaped panel. Decorative multiple stacks to ends and centre under corbelled tops of star-shaped pattern. Three bays across with outer bays canted and rising from first floors to parapet and crowned by turret roofs under iron finials. Prominent rainwater heads and down pipes flank outer bays. Each canted bay comprises one 6-pane, glazing-bar sash window in each face on the third floor under cornice moulding and with apron panel below, and one segmental-headed plate sash in each face on second floor below over similar apron panel. Segmental-headed plate sashes in each face of each bay on first floor with moulded sills forming part of cornice over ground floor. Centre bay between projecting outer bays comprises one square sash window on third floor in rendered, quoined surround over terracotta apron panel decorated with flowers, one segmental-headed plate sash window on second floor with zig-zag decoration on lintel and terracotta panel below and one plate sash window under segmental hood mould and in architrave surround on the first floor. C20 shop fronts across the ground floor with 3 round-headed arched lights to left, two to right and round-headed doors to centre and right. An imposing building included for group value.

Listing NGR: SU9980349477

External Links

• Wikidata Q26475440

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)