Harris Carpets
HARRIS CARPETS, 149, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180141
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Harris Carpets
- Statutory Address:
- HARRIS CARPETS, 149, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180141
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Harris Carpets
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARRIS CARPETS, 149, 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:
- HARRIS CARPETS, 149, 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 99807 49508
Details
SU 9949NE GUILDFORD HIGH STREET (North Side) 5/76 No. 149 1/5/53 (Harris Carpets)
GV II House, now shop. C18 with C19 and C20 alterations. Whitewashed stucco cladding with plain tiled hipped roofs. Three storeys with modillioned eaves cornice to base of parapet. Stacks to rear and ends. Giant Corinthian order on first and second floors with angle pilasters and paired central pilasters on front. Four bays wide, two either side of central pilasters. 12-pane glazing-bar sash fenestration, some windows with crown glass remaining. Four windows on each floor with vermiculated keystone blocks to lintels. C20 plate glass shop front below with central doors. Medieval undercroft below the house noted by Margaret Wood in her article "Thirteenth Century Domestic Architecture in England" Archaeological Journal 105 (1950) supplement.
SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS (OFFPRINT) VOL. LXXIV (1983): Article on: THE UNDERCROFT 72/4 HIGH STREET, GUILDFORD BY M. G. O'CONNELL & SHIRLEY CORKE.
Listing NGR: SU9980249517
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288938
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Surrey Archaeological Collections in Surrey Archaeological Collections, Vol. 74, (1983)
Wood, M E, Archaeological Journal Supplement in Thirteenth Century Domestic Architecture in England, Vol. 105, (1950)
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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