National Westminster Bank Area Office

The National Westminster Bank Area Office, located at 20 Quarry Street in Guildford, is a house that has been converted into offices. It dates from the 16th and 17th centuries, with extensions added in the 18th and 19th centuries at the rear. The building features a timber frame, which is clad below in smooth render and whitewashed roughcast above. The left-hand return front includes brick, flint, and some chalk blocks, topped with a plain tiled roof.

The structure is two storeys tall with attics over basement storeys at the rear, where the ground drops away. The first floor juts out on end brackets and a box bressumer. There is an end stack to the left with a corbelled top. On the first floor, there are two three-light casement windows. The ground floor has rusticated angle quoins, with a central door framed by pilasters and a two-light casement window on either side.

On the left-hand return front, there is a shaped gable featuring a tile-on-edge roundel at the first floor. The windows are leaded casements with tile-on-edge lintels. The rear includes an 18th-century extension that runs at right angles to the north and a 19th-century extension to the south, which has a square oriel bay window on the first floor. This bay window features three foiled head lights on the return sides and three arched mullioned and transomed front lights, supported by a carved ornate central corbel. Below, in the basement storey, there are round-arched sashes with deep surrounds and intersecting tracery heads. A canted bay window on the left rises through two floors.

Inside, the roof structure consists of two tiers of purlins in line, with the main tie beam cut through below and strutted braces inserted to the collar.