Description

SU 99 49SE GUILDFORD MILLMEAD (West Side)

8/145 Weir House 1/5/53 II

House. Early C19 with later C19 and C20 extensions to the north. Colourwashed stucco and roughcast with low-pitched, hipped slate roofs over main house, tiled roofs to north. Built into sloping site, east-west, with two storeys and base- ment on entrance front to west, two storeys and attic on east front facing river. Rendered stacks to centre of roof, to left and left end. Deep bracketed eaves on main house. Entrance front:- curved bow to right with 6-pane curved sash window to first floor, blocked window below on ground floor. Three-light leaded casement window in the basement storey. One 6-pane sash window to first floor left with double casement doors below; stained glass in pointed-arch over-lights. Fine trellis-work wooden porch with ribbed square-domed ogee roof. Lattice work panels to sides and front standards, Greek key band over front. Deep coved entrance and hollow chamfer to angles. Hip-roofed range to left with 3 casement windows on the ground floor and two 12-pane sash windows above. Right hand return front (to south):- Bowed bay rising through full height to right with curved 6-pane attic sash and curved casement doors below on first floor, opening on to fine first floor balcony with ogee tent roof over Greek key pattern frieze and 3-bay arched front. Centre bay wider with lattice patterns on the standards and plain balcony railings. One attic sash and one 12-pane first floor sash to left. Tent-roofed verandah across the whole of the ground floor, part glazed roof to left, on similar standards with casement doors behind. Verandah continues on the right across the east front, facing the river, with four bays. Casement doors on ground floor, two blocked and two open first floor sashes, three windows and one blocked window in attic storey above. Interior:- C19 staircase with trellis balustrade.

Listing NGR: SU9956549022

External Links

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