23, 25, 27 AND 29, HIGH STREET

SU 9949SE & SU9949SW GUILDFORD HIGH STREET (North Side)

8/53 & 7/53 Nos. 23, 25, 27 and 1/5/53 29

GV II

Town house, now shops below, offices above. Early C18 Baroque with C20 alterations on the ground floor. Mottled yellow brick with red brick dressings and plain tiled roofs obscured by stone-coped parapets. Rectangular plan on corner site. Two storeys with tall attics and panelled stacks to ends. Regular front of 7 bays, the centre 3 bays in a pedimented break. Fine modillioned egg and dart cornice over the first floor and giant angle pilasters with triglyph and guttae patterned capitals decorated with egg and dart band. Lower parts of the pilasters now removed. Moulded brick coping to parapet with 7 sunk panels across and square corner newels. 7 attic sash windows in quoined red brick surrounds and under segmental gauged brick heads with Portland stone keystones; only the two left hand windows retain glazing bars. 7 sashes on the first floor in similar surrounds and with gauged-brick aprons below but only the two left hand windows retain glazing bars. C20 plate glass shop fronts across the ground floor. Right hand return front (facing Friary Street):- six bays with cornice breaking forwards over two end pilasters and two-bay centre projection. Two left-of-centre bays now blocked and no glazing bars survive in windows. Interiors - partitioned up with little surviving. Photographs in N.M.R.

Listing NGR: SU9950549408