The Old Cloth Hall

The Old Cloth Hall, North Street, Guildford, GU1 4AW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1189730
Date first listed:: 01-May-1953
List Entry Name:: The Old Cloth Hall
Statutory Address:: The Old Cloth Hall, North Street, Guildford, GU1 4AW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1189730
Date first listed:: 01-May-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: The Old Cloth Hall
Statutory Address 1:: The Old Cloth Hall, North Street, Guildford, GU1 4AW

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:: The Old Cloth Hall, North Street, Guildford, GU1 4AW

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 99820 49596

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 August 2022 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SU 99 49NE 5/164

GUILDFORD NORTH STREET (South Side) The Old Cloth Hall

(Formerly listed as The Old Cloth Hall (Laura Ashley), previously listed as Premises occupied by Surrey Probation and After Care Service)

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Cloth hall, now shop. Built 1629 by Archbishop Abbot and extended in late C19 to the street end. Red-brown brick with orange-red brick on the extensions and plain tiled roofs. Rectangular plan at right angles to the street with tower extension to the street (north) end. Two and a half storeys to old range, with taller three stage tower facing the street.

Tower: stacks to front and with parapet around top; octagonal corner turrets under stone domes and finials. Buttressed on ground and first stages with string courses above. Curved bay rising through first and second stage on stone, moulded corbel support with stone-quoining and stone-dressed, mullioned and transomed casement fenestration. Three-light leaded attic casement above. One three-light leaded casement window to ground floor left, one to right flanking four-centre arched stone door surround with tall plinth moulding.

Older, return range to right facing Jeffries passage with irregular leaded casement fenestration, the majority C19. Chamfered-surround slit breathers along the first floor with three windows in, later, upper floor above. Wall continues to right along Jeffries passage at approx 2 metres height with brick-on-edge coping.

Rear:- gable and apex stack with gargoyles to angles.

Left hand return front (east side): stone-dressed mullioned and transomed casement fenestration in irregular arrangement. Door to left with chamfered stone surround and label moulding over.

The Cloth hall was built on the site of the stables of George Abbot's Hospital of the Blessed Trinity. Abbot intended it to be a manufactory to revive the woollen cloth industry in Guildford and endowed it with £100 p.a. In 1656 it was converted to house paupers and in 1856 it was used for the foundation of George Abbot's School.

Listing NGR: SU9982049601

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Legacy System number:: 289029
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.