Greyfriars
GREYFRIARS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1029612
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Greyfriars
- Statutory Address:
- GREYFRIARS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1029612
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Greyfriars
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREYFRIARS
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:
- GREYFRIARS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wanborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 94597 48313
Details
SU 94NW WANBOROUGH C.P. HOGS BACK
8/120 Greyfriars
GV II*
House. 1896 by C.A. Voysey for Julian Sturgis, extended to the west in 1913/14 by Herbert Baker. Whitewashed roughcast with smooth ashlar dressings, hipped slate roof swept out at eaves. 2 storeys and attic in gables and under flat lead roofed, leaded casement dormers. Multiple ridge stacks to left end, left of centre, right of centre,and right end. Tiled pentice drip-course over ground floor, deep boarded eaves. Stone dressed leaded casement fenestration. Entrance front: irregular broken roof line. Hipped 2 storey range to left 3-windows on first floor and large battering buttresses to right. Steep gable over narrow bay the other side of the buttress 2 windows on the first floor and one large mullioned and transomed window below. Taller square tower to centre with roundel window over 4 first floor windows, irregularly placed, and ground floor door. Gabled bay and wing to right with first floor windows in continuous strip, 4 windows below. Slight projection, chamfered, to right end. Main entrance to right of centre in chamfered edge, stone, recessed porch with block modillion hood.
Garden front: large gable to left end with slits in apex. 3 dormer windows buttressed to right end. Irregular leaded casement fenestration, 9 windows across first floor, 7 below. 2 storey square bay to left with continuous window strip on both floors, smaller square bay to right. Single storey extension to left end. Return wall to right end with arched door giving access to service court.
Interior: some fittngs survive, mainly locks and keys. Board doors. Wood and stone fireplace surrounds, coved ceilings.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971 pp 267-8)
Listing NGR: SU9459748313
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288184
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 267-268
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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