BOOKERS TOWER GUILDFORD

BOOKERS TOWER GUILDFORD, THE MOUNT

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188100
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: BOOKERS TOWER GUILDFORD
Statutory Address:: BOOKERS TOWER GUILDFORD, THE MOUNT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188100
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: BOOKERS TOWER GUILDFORD
Statutory Address 1:: BOOKERS TOWER GUILDFORD, THE MOUNT

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BOOKERS TOWER GUILDFORD, THE MOUNT

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 99141 48839

Details

SU 94NE GUILDFORD THE MOUNT (South Side, off)

3/148 Bookers Tower Guildford

II

Tower. 1839.Bargate stone blocks with ashlar and brick dressings. Octagonal plan. Three stages with corbel table to base of parapet and stone string course over each stage. Brick-edged stone-coped buttresses to lower stage alternating with Gothic arched brick-dressed panels. Irregular slit fenestration above, with lancet fenestration to upper stage. Guildown Cemetery is the site of a Saxon burial ground. The tower was built for Charles Booker, three times Mayor of Guildford.

Listing NGR: SU9914148839

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Legacy System number:: 289013
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.