72, 74, 76 AND 78, HIGH STREET
72, 74, 76 AND 78, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1180242
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- Statutory Address:
- 72, 74, 76 AND 78, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1180242
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- Statutory Address 1:
- 72, 74, 76 AND 78, HIGH STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 72, 74, 76 AND 78, 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 99676 49432
Details
SU 9949SE GUILDFORD HIGH STREET (South Side) 8/93 Nos 72, 74, 76 & 78 1/5/53
GV II*
House, now divided into offices. C13 undercroft below with 1803 house above, altered in the C2O. Chalk and stone undercroft with brick props, orange/red brick above with some tile hanging on the right hand return front. Stone-coped parapet obscuring plain-tiled roof. Three storeys over undercroft; 3 bays with stacks to left. Regular front with centre bay now blocked. Tripartite sash windows in outer bays on second and first floors under gauged brick heads, only those windows on right retaining glazing bars. Stone dressed ground floor with two office windows to ends, both mullioned and transomed and with triple round- arched upper lights. Paired doors to left and right of centre under fanlights and with deep bracketed hoods over. Stone steps with cast iron anthemion pattern railings in front of No. 72. Undercroft:- Approx 10 metres by 6 and 3 metres high. Three bays deep with groined ribbed roof rising from two round piers. Arch corbels carved in grotesques and human heads. Remains of North stairs from former street level survive when under- croft was probably used as a shop. The Undercroft is a scheduled Ancient Monument, Surrey Monument No. 166.
SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS (OFFPRINT) VOL.LXXIV (1983) SHIRLEY CORKE MEDIEVAL UNDERCROFTS AND TOWN HOUSES (ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL 1966) Article by P. Faulkner p.123. G. ROSE'S ANTIQUITIES OF SURREY (1772). GUILDFORD IN OLDEN TIMES. G. C. WILLIAMSON (1904) BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.282.
Listing NGR: SU9968349425
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288957
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rose, G, Antiquities of Surrey, (1772)
Williamson, G C, Guildford in Olden Times, (1904)
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 282
Archaeological Journal in Archaeological Journal, (1966), 123
Surrey Archaeological Collections in Surrey Archaeological Collections, Vol. 74, (1983)
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