Russell House
RUSSELL HOUSE, 137 AND 139, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029286
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Russell House
- Statutory Address:
- RUSSELL HOUSE, 137 AND 139, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03024/25
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029286
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Russell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUSSELL HOUSE, 137 AND 139, 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:
- RUSSELL HOUSE, 137 AND 139, 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 99781 49497
Details
SU 9949SE & SU 9949NE GUILDFORD HIGH STREET (North Side) 8/73 & 5/73 Nos. 137 and 139 1/5/53 (Russell House)
GV II
House, now shop and offices. Early C18. Incised colourwashed render cladding over wood and glass shop front below; plain tiled hipped roof end-on to street. Two storeys and attics with rusticated angle quoins dentilled eaves cornice and plat bands over ground and first floors. Stacks to rear. Large late C19/C20 flat roofed 4-light casement dormer with diamond panel decorations on end jambs. Three bay front below with three 12-pane unhorned glazing-bar sash windows, some with old glass, on the second floor in lugged architrave surrounds. Three plate glass sash windows on the first floor on architrave surrounds and under cornice hoods. Shop front across the ground floor with glazed doors in recess to right and panelled doors to left. Wooden attached flitted Ionic columns to ends of ground floor. Birthplace of John Russell R.A. 1745-1806, Guildfords most famous watercolourist.
Listing NGR: SU9978449498
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288935
- 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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