274 AND 276, HIGH STREET
274 AND 276, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188046
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 274 AND 276, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 274 AND 276, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-04-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/03807/27
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188046
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 274 AND 276, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 274 AND 276, 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:
- 274 AND 276, 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:
- TQ 00144 49669
Details
TQ 0049NW GUILDFORD HIGH STREET (South Side)
6/124 Nos 274 and 276 1/5/53 (Formerly listed as No.276 )
GV II
House, now estate agents and offices. Mid C18 with early C19 alterations and extensions to sides and rear of c.1881. Red brick,clad in colourwashed stucco with plain tiled roof to front obscured by tall parapet, C19 extensions under hipped slate roofs. Two storeys and attic under cornice and parapet with end newels) channelled angle piers and rusticated ground floor on smooth-rendered plinth,corbelled stacks to left & right. Three bay front with steep central pediment. Three 6-pane attic sash windows in raised architrave surrounds; key- stones to outer windows,scrolled keystone to centre, with scrolled corbels to sills below. Three 12-pane glazing-bar sash windows to first floor in lugged architrave surrounds with pulvinated friezes over to pediment hoods, outer ones segmental, central one triangular and with modillions and scrolls flanking frieze, foliage garlands suspended from scrolls. Square plate glass ground floor windows with half-oval traceried fans over. Central door of four panels with traceried and glazed top panel under fanlight, and keystoned voussoir surround. Right hand return front:- two windows deep with projecting surrounds, the windows at differing levels indicating the extensions and subsequent alterations. Later C19 wing set back to right with cross-ridge stack and hip-roofed dormer; moulded eaves to base of parapet and plate glass sash fenestration. Ground floor shop extensions not of special interest. C20 extensions to rear not of special interest. Interior:- Large staircase of early C18 style and some door and window surrounds of similar date.
Listing NGR: TQ0013849660
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288990
- 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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