Littlecroft
LITTLECROFT, 21, GUILDOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029317
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Littlecroft
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLECROFT, 21, GUILDOWN ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029317
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Littlecroft
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLECROFT, 21, GUILDOWN 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:
- LITTLECROFT, 21, GUILDOWN 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 98890 48576
Details
SU 94NE GUILDFORD GUILDOWN ROAD (South Side)
3/51 No 21 (Littlecroft) 13/1/72 II
House. 1899 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Mrs Bowes Watson. Orange/red brick below with whitewashed roughcast above under hipped, plain tiled roofs. Two storeys built into a hillside with a basement to the rear where the ground drops away. Tall stacks, wide multiple cross-ridge stacks to left and right, smaller double stacks to left of centre. Triple hipped roof ranges end on and parallel,with shuttered glazing-bar casement fenestration. One first floor window to each end range and projecting turret windows on squinches to angles. Stilted-arch lunette windows in ground floor, below the level of the road with a thin, ribbed-brick keystone reaching up to link with the brick stringcourse over the ground floor. Central range projects with further turret windows on the angles and half-hipped dormers in sides of roof. Block-rusticated brick frontispiece with ogee voussoirs to keystoned arch over recessed double doors under round head. Original brass door furnishings survive. Left hand return front:- Two windows on both floors with shutters and tile-on-edge lintels. Right hand return front:- square break to left with one window on each floor. Rear:- Three casements across the first floor, outer canted bay windows below. Central door in shuttered margin lights.
L. WEAVER: HOUSES AND GARDENS BY E. L. LUTYENS (1981 REPRINT) p.47 figs 81-4. PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND: SURREY (1971) p.293. LUTYENS: CATALOGUE OF EXHIBITION (1981) p.193.
Listing NGR: SU9889048576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288913
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 293
Weaver, L, Houses and Gardens by Sir Edwin Lutyens RA, (1913), 47
Arts Council of Great Britain Catalogue in The Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens 1889-1944, (1981), 193
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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