Wycliffe Buildings
WYCLIFFE BUILDINGS, PORTSMOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029246
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Wycliffe Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- WYCLIFFE BUILDINGS, PORTSMOUTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029246
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Wycliffe Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- WYCLIFFE BUILDINGS, PORTSMOUTH ROAD
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:
- WYCLIFFE BUILDINGS, PORTSMOUTH ROAD
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 99320 49210
Details
SU 99 49SW GUILDFORD PORTSMOUTH ROAD (East Side)
7/173 Wycliffe Buildings 13/1/72 II
Block of flats. 1894 by H. Thackery-Turner in Arts and Crafts style. Coursed sand- stone blocks, some snecked, with hipped and gabled plain-tiled roofs. Wedge-shaped plan on an island site, the main front facing Portsmouth Road. Two storeys and attics with increasingly tall plinth to left half where ground slopes away. Deep eaves with decorative scrolled supports to drainpipes and gutters. Gabled dormers on eaves and breaking through the eaves behind the gutters, brick stacks on ridges of roofs under corbelled tops to left, left of centre and two to right. Complex elevation with very irregular fenestration comprising three main ranges with tower to right end. Gabled projecting range to left end:- one narrow casement window on each floor with door of two panels below. Gable flanked by 3-light dormers and mullioned and transomed casement windows on the first floor. Paired,cambered-head glazing-bar sash windows on the ground floor. Hipped roof range to left of centre:- two gabled 4-light dormers and one under-eaves 3-light casement window between. Three windows on the first floor: 4-light outer casements flanking central 3-light window. Paired glazing-bar sash windows on the ground floor flanked by two sashes to either side and one between-floors casement to left, over 4-centre arched deep porch recess containing two 6-panel doors, one part-glazed, under barrel vault. Original iron screen gates across the front. Right hand range:- One narrow case- ment window on each floor and 2-panel door below. Three,3-light dormer over two 3-light and one 4-light casements on the first floor. Two paired cambered-head glazing-bar sashes below. Roof steps up to right with gabled buttress in front flanking tower on right hand end. Tower:- placed on the angle of Portsmouth Road and Bury Street with pyramidal roof over. Ground floor casements on all 3 sides. Right hand return front facing Bury Street:- descending roofline in a series of 3 steps, before stepping up to right end; two dormers in each section stepping down. 4-light windows to left over two ground floor sashes. 3-light windows to centre and right on first floor over paired ground floor sashes. End block to right steps up under full dormer and 8-light mullioned and transomed window on the first floor. Rear:- Square bay to centre with parapet above and central stack; gabled wing to right with close-set casement fenestration. Interior:- Some original door fittings remain and stair hand-rails to nos 7 - 9 in flowing Art Nouveau style.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.212.
Listing NGR: SU9933549232
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 289038
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 212
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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