The James I Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1953. Restaurant. 5 related planning applications.

The James I Restaurant

WRENN ID
small-tower-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Guildford
Constituency
Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 May 1953
Type
Restaurant
Address
The James I Restaurant, 10 and 11, Chapel Street, GU1 3UH
OS grid reference
SU 996 493
Coordinates
51.23466, -0.57336
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The James I Restaurant is a house and the remains of a cottage, now functioning as a restaurant. It dates from the late 16th century and 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is timber framed and covered in whitewashed render, topped with a plain tiled roof, which has been partly re-roofed in the 20th century.

The structure has two storeys and attics, featuring a gabled 19th-century casement dormer located to the left of the center. A main stack is positioned to the rear left of the center. On the first floor, there are two 19th-century casement windows, one with three lights and the other with two lights. To the left, there is a first-floor door above a flat-lintelled throughway below.

On the ground floor, there is an oriel bay window to the left of center and a smaller window to the right. A half-glazed and panelled door is located at the right end, framed by a pilaster-pier surround. In the center, there is a glazed door also framed with a pilaster surround and topped with a flat hood. The throughway to the left has its frame exposed on the north and south sides, with the north side showing a more substantial scantling, while the south side suggests the remains of a cottage with a thinner frame at the rear.

Inside, the substantial frame is exposed, and some 19th-century panelling can be seen behind the bar.

Local climate

The James I Restaurant receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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