Millmead House

MILLMEAD HOUSE, MILLMEAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1188094
Date first listed:
01-May-1953
List Entry Name:
Millmead House
Statutory Address:
MILLMEAD HOUSE, MILLMEAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1188094
Date first listed:
01-May-1953
List Entry Name:
Millmead House
Statutory Address 1:
MILLMEAD HOUSE, MILLMEAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MILLMEAD HOUSE, MILLMEAD

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 99510 49092

Details

SU 99 49SE & SU 99 49SW GUILDFORD MILLMEAD (West Side) 8/144 & 7/144 Millmead House 1/5/53 II House, now council offices. Late C17 with C18 alterations, extended in C19 and C20 in similar style. Deep red/brown brick to centre, orange-brown brick to left, red brick to right. Low-pitched hipped slate roofs. Original house of rectangular plan, now L-shaped with extensions projecting forward to right. Two storeys and attics with stacks to rear left of centre and to right end. Original house five bays wide with brick modillion eaves cornice, now to base of attic storey. Blue header plat band across the ground floor plinth below. Five 6- pane attic sash windows under gauged-brick heads, some renewed, with five 12- pane glazing-bar sash windows on the first floor. Centre window on the first floor in Gibbs style, block-rusticated surround under segmental pediment with blue headers in tympanum and keystone to centre, remaining first floor windows in raised shouldered surrounds with keystones over. Ground floor projects below with stone-coped parapet. Two large, 12-pane glazing-bar sash windows either side of central rendered and projecting frontispiece. Modillioned entablature over attached 3/4 Roman Ionic columns and channelled outer piers. Paired doors of fielded panels with egg and dart mouldings and margin tracery to the transom- light above. Extension of four bays to left with similar fenestration, one bay addition to the right with two attic sashes and one window on the first floor. End wing to right projects with 3 windows across the front, 4 windows deep. Rear:- Further extensions not of special interest. Interiors:- Fine C18 turned baluster staircase of some quality, C18 and C19 fielded-panel doors in architrave without string surrounds. Some ceiling coving. Most impressive room, on the first floor, is approached up the main stair and was the former Rural District Council Chamber.

Listing NGR: SU9948649073

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Legacy System number:
289009
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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