Rodboro Buildings
RODBORO BUILDINGS, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029299
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rodboro Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- RODBORO BUILDINGS, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029299
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rodboro Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- RODBORO BUILDINGS, BRIDGE 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:
- RODBORO BUILDINGS, BRIDGE 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 99407 49558
Details
SU 94NE GUILDFORD BRIDGE STREET (South Side)
Rodboro 3/4 Buildings 31/7/86 II Factory. Circa 1900, extended in circa 1903. Brown brick with red brick dressings on steel frame, with rendered cladding and risers on the ground floor. Slate roofs, hipped on the left hand range and with parallel, part-glazed gabled ranges to right. Rectangular plan on an island site with the north east corner curving around the junction of Bridge and Onslow Streets. Three storeys with gable-lit attics; stacks to front and rear at junction of ranges. Bridge Street facade:- double gable-end range of 12 bays to right with giant end pilasters under moulded caps and further giant pilasters to centre of each range. Brick dentil band to gables and brick string courses on first and ground floors, cornice to eaves. Keyed, brick-edged rounds to each gable, four fixed windows with glazing-bars, the centre four panes pivoting, to each gable on first and second floors. Gauged brick soldier arches over each window. Original ground floor showroom windows now blocked and central pilaster piers truncated. Five bay curved range wrapping around the corner to left with pier buttresses articulating between bays. Each bay with two windows on each floor, moulded brick eaves and blocked ground floor fenestration. Further five-bay range to left facing Onslow Street with similar articulation and fenestrations; the ground floor piers retain square floral panels in the capitals. Rear elevation:- Irregular fenestration with cambered heads to windows. Seven windows across both floors to right, of varying widths, 9 windows across the gabled ranges. Blocked doors and windows on the ground floor. The factory originally accommodated the manufacturing plant and equipment for the production of touring cars, motor buses and commercial vehicles, including the fire engine, designed by the Dennis Company. It was also used for experimental work and the most important development was the Dennis "worm-driven" rear axle. The showrooms of the Company originally occupied the ground floor, the manufacturing being on the upper floors, and thus the building was one of the first, if not the first, purpose-built car factories in England and the world. The company archives are deposited at Guildford Muniment Room and original building plans are held by the Guildford Borough Council.
"Why Dennis and How" (Guildford 1945) by R. Twelvetrees. pp 60 - 74 "Factory Facts" and ill. opposite p.61.
Listing NGR: SU9940749558
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288865
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Twelvetrees, R, Why Dennis and How, (1945), 60-74
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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