Diocesan House
DIOCESAN HOUSE, 43, QUARRY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189827
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Diocesan House
- Statutory Address:
- DIOCESAN HOUSE, 43, QUARRY STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03027/24
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189827
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Diocesan House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DIOCESAN HOUSE, 43, QUARRY 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:
- DIOCESAN HOUSE, 43, QUARRY 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:
- SU 99729 49155
Details
GUILDFORD QUARRY STREET SU 99 49SE (East Side) 8/190 No. 43 1/5/53 (Diocesan House)
GV II
House, now offices. Circa 1700 with C20 extensions to rear. Red-brown brick with wooden modillion eaves cornice and plain-tiled roof. Two storeys and attics under C19 gabled casement dormer to right with stack to right end. Basement plinth below ground floor, plat band above. Six 9-pane glazing-bar sash windows on the first floor, five 12-pane sash windows below on the ground floor with 4- centred arched heads to upper lights and gauged-brick keystones linking up to plat band. Door of six studded panels to right of centre in panelled, projecting, wood surround breaking up through the plat band and under a cornice hood, with panelled reveals and 9-pane over-light. Two basement windows below to left and right. Gable end wing set back to right with fishscale pattern tile-hanging in gable. Attic casement window and one glazing-bar sash window with arched upper lights on the ground floor, breaking up through the plat band that steps up to left. Right hand return front:- three hipped-roof dormers, 4 cambered-head glazing-bar sash windows below linked by sill plat band. C20 extensions to rear right not of special interest. Photographs in N.M.R.
Listing NGR: SU9974549157
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 289055
- 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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