The Chestnuts
THE CHESTNUTS, 3, CASTLE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295249
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Chestnuts
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHESTNUTS, 3, CASTLE HILL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295249
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Chestnuts
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHESTNUTS, 3, CASTLE HILL
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:
- THE CHESTNUTS, 3, CASTLE HILL
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 99765 49230
Details
SU 9949SE GUILDFORD CASTLE HILL (North East Side) 8/18 No 3 (The Chestnuts) 1/5/53
II House. Circa 1865. Red/browm brick with low pitched hipped slate roofs. Three storeys over basement with end stacks. Three bay regular front with three 12- pane and margin light, cambered-head glazing-bar sash windows to first and second floors under gauged-brick heads. Two 12-pane ground floor windows, one either side of central parapeted porch with door of six panels in margin lights and under fan-traceried over-light. Two windows in basement storey. Two storey late C19 pent roofed extension to left with C20 fenestration and door. Single storey ribbed roof extension to right. The Revd. Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) lived here and died in the house on 14 January 1898.
Photographs in: N.M.R. M ALEXANDER: GUILDFORD AS IT WAS (1978).
Listing NGR: SU9976449236
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288880
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Alexander, M, Guildford As It Was, (1978)
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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