136, 138 AND 140, HIGH STREET
136, 138 AND 140, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180261
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 136, 138 AND 140, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 136, 138 AND 140, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180261
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 136, 138 AND 140, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 136, 138 AND 140, 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:
- 136, 138 AND 140, 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 99805 49480
Details
SU 9949SE GUILDFORD HIGH STREET (South Side)
8/100 Nos 136, 138 and 140
GV II
Houses, now shops below and offices above. Dated 1883 with C2O shop fronts below. Red/orange brick with terracotta and painted stone dressings; plain tiled roofs obscured by parapets and gable. Four storeys with rendered plat bands at first, second, third and parapet heights. Stone-coped kneeler to ends of parapet and decorating gable to centre which contains diamond-shaped panel. Decorative multiple stacks to ends and centre under corbelled tops of star-shaped pattern. Three bays across with outer bays canted and rising from first floors to parapet and crowned by turret roofs under iron finials. Prominent rainwater heads and down pipes flank outer bays. Each canted bay comprises one 6-pane, glazing-bar sash window in each face on the third floor under cornice moulding and with apron panel below, and one segmental-headed plate sash in each face on second floor below over similar apron panel. Segmental-headed plate sashes in each face of each bay on first floor with moulded sills forming part of cornice over ground floor. Centre bay between projecting outer bays comprises one square sash window on third floor in rendered, quoined surround over terracotta apron panel decorated with flowers, one segmental-headed plate sash window on second floor with zig-zag decoration on lintel and terracotta panel below and one plate sash window under segmental hood mould and in architrave surround on the first floor. C20 shop fronts across the ground floor with 3 round-headed arched lights to left, two to right and round-headed doors to centre and right. An imposing building included for group value.
Listing NGR: SU9980349477
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288964
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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