23, 25, 27 AND 29, HIGH STREET
23, 25, 27 AND 29, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029276
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 23, 25, 27 AND 29, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 23, 25, 27 AND 29, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-11-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/03935/33
- Rights:
- © Norman Wigg. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029276
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 23, 25, 27 AND 29, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23, 25, 27 AND 29, HIGH 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:
- 23, 25, 27 AND 29, HIGH 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 99501 49404
Details
SU 9949SE & SU9949SW GUILDFORD HIGH STREET (North Side)
8/53 & 7/53 Nos. 23, 25, 27 and 1/5/53 29
GV II
Town house, now shops below, offices above. Early C18 Baroque with C20 alterations on the ground floor. Mottled yellow brick with red brick dressings and plain tiled roofs obscured by stone-coped parapets. Rectangular plan on corner site. Two storeys with tall attics and panelled stacks to ends. Regular front of 7 bays, the centre 3 bays in a pedimented break. Fine modillioned egg and dart cornice over the first floor and giant angle pilasters with triglyph and guttae patterned capitals decorated with egg and dart band. Lower parts of the pilasters now removed. Moulded brick coping to parapet with 7 sunk panels across and square corner newels. 7 attic sash windows in quoined red brick surrounds and under segmental gauged brick heads with Portland stone keystones; only the two left hand windows retain glazing bars. 7 sashes on the first floor in similar surrounds and with gauged-brick aprons below but only the two left hand windows retain glazing bars. C20 plate glass shop fronts across the ground floor. Right hand return front (facing Friary Street):- six bays with cornice breaking forwards over two end pilasters and two-bay centre projection. Two left-of-centre bays now blocked and no glazing bars survive in windows. Interiors - partitioned up with little surviving. Photographs in N.M.R.
Listing NGR: SU9950549408
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288915
- 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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