8 AND 8A, QUARRY STREET
8 AND 8A, QUARRY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1029224
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 8 AND 8A, QUARRY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8 AND 8A, QUARRY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1029224
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 8 AND 8A, QUARRY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8 AND 8A, QUARRY 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 8 AND 8A, QUARRY 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 99648 49293
Details
GUILDFORD QUARRY STREET SU 99 49SE (West Side) 8/214 Nos 8 and 8A 1/5/53
GV II*
House, now divided and converted into offices. Late C15/early C16 with late C17/ early C18 front and parallel early C18 range to rear. Further extended to rear in C19 and restored in early C20 by M. H. Baillie-Scott. Timber framed on chalk block cellar and lower ground floor walls. Whitewashed render infilling to exposed frame on right hand return front and to rear; colourwashed rendered cladding on front; plain tiled roofs with tile hung gable end to right. Two storeys and attics over basement/cellar to rear where ground drops away. Stacks to rear left of centre on front range and to rear on extensions. Two segmentally- headed 12-pane glazing-bar sash dormer windows on front over bold modillioned eaves cornice. Irregular fenestration on the first floor comprising two segmentally-headed early C18, 12-pane glazing-bar sash windows to left, one to right. One fixed glazing-bar window to ground floor left, two sash windows to right; one 12-pane and one 16-pane. 6-panel door to right of centre in Ionic pilaster surround with deep frieze and shallow flat hood over. Right hand return front (facing Rosemary Alley): Frame exposed and showing top storey addition in early C18. Tension bracing on first floor and irregular casement fenestration. Parallel gable to right, jettied on first floor with one casement window on each of two floors and sash window to right. Muntin panelled door on ground floor. Rear:- Rendered gable end projecting to left with plat band over ground floor. Further gable set back to right with bands of fishscale tiling and leaded, square oriel window on the first floor over recessed door. Interior:- Substantial frame exposed with arched bracing on ground floor rooms. Wide ceiling joists to rear rooms with some panelling. Staggered butt purlin roofs on parallel ranges.
Listing NGR: SU9964649291
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 289081
- 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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