THE OLD PRISON

THE OLD PRISON, LOWER STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1189454
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:: THE OLD PRISON
Statutory Address:: THE OLD PRISON, LOWER STREET

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Date:: 2004-09-13
Reference:: IOE01/13313/17
Rights:: © Norman Wigg. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1189454
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-May-1985
List Entry Name:: THE OLD PRISON
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD PRISON, LOWER STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD PRISON, LOWER STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Surrey
District:: Guildford (District Authority)
Parish:: Shere
National Grid Reference:: TQ 07185 47826

Details

TQ 0647-0747 SHERE CP LOWER STREET

12/231 The Old Prison 14/6/67 (formerly listed as Orchard Cottage)

II

House. Late C16 restored in mid C20. Timber framed under-built in flint rubble with brick quoins, frame exposed above with flint and sandstone rubble infilling and plain tiled roofs. T-shaped plan with gable end to street. Two storeys jettied on first floor of gable over ground floor, square panel framing. One diamond pane leaded casement window on first floor and one five-light window with diagonal mullions to ground floor. One window on each floor of left hand recessed bay. Studded door to left end. Chimney to rear left and right. Right hand return front: gabled bay to right with one casement window on each floor.

Listing NGR: TQ0718647827

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Legacy System number:: 288498
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.