Ward Street Temperance Hall Including Railings

WARD STREET TEMPERANCE HALL INCLUDING RAILINGS, WARD STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1029196
Date first listed:
14-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:
Ward Street Temperance Hall Including Railings
Statutory Address:
WARD STREET TEMPERANCE HALL INCLUDING RAILINGS, WARD STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1029196
Date first listed:
14-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:
Ward Street Temperance Hall Including Railings
Statutory Address 1:
WARD STREET TEMPERANCE HALL INCLUDING RAILINGS, WARD STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WARD STREET TEMPERANCE HALL INCLUDING RAILINGS, WARD STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Surrey
District:
Guildford (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SU 99752 49653

Details

SU 99 49NE GUILDFORD WARD STREET (West Side) 5/247 Ward Street 14/8/84 Temperance Hall including railings GV II Former Temperance Hall and front railings. 1876, built for the Reverend Francis Paynter of Stoke. High Victorian Pointed Gothic style. Coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins with slate roofs in contrasting bands under red tile crestings. One storey and attic over basement. Two gables to centre with triple attic lancet windows and pentice under parapet across ground floor with porch to centre. Gable-fronted wing to right with triple lancet. Tower to left under pyramidal roof with paired lancet windows over front pentice with triple lancet to left of porch and paired lancet to right and continuous with porch, which has a flight of steps up to an arched entrance with foliated capitals to jamb shaft surround and a parapet decorated with quatrefoils. Doorway with name of hall in parapet to left hand of tower, comtemporary iron railings across front. Rear elevation:- brick dressings paired lancet fenestration and gablets in roof.

Listing NGR: SU9975249653

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
289118
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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