Quarry Heights Undershaw

TQ 04NW GUILDFORD WARWICKS BENCH (South-West Side) 4/254 No. 16 (Quarry 13/1/72 Heights) and No. 18 (Undershaw) II House, now divided in two. Circa 1910 by M. H. Baillie-Scott in a Tudor style. Brown brick with plain tiled roofs; stone-flagged entrance court. L-shaped plan with long projecting wing to left, shorter gabled wing to right. Built into hillside with single-storey entrance range approached from street, two storeys across rear. Multiple stacks in a cluster of six to ridge of short wing on right, 4 diagonal stacks with tile-on-edge coping to rear left; further diagonal stacks to left side. Deep eaves on left hand wing with leaded half dormer to left. Glazed C20 door to centre with small casement flanking. Lower casement window to right under tile-on-edge lintel, where ground drops away. Two storey gabled bay in angle re-entrant to left with 2-light leaded casement window to first floor and cambered-head single light window below. Two plain 3-light windows to pentice left of centre on centre range; one leaded window to gable end of right hand wing over square bay window on ground floor. Ribbed door under 4-centre arched head to right hand angle re-entrant with carved spandrels and approached along a cloister of 3 bays, central one on round pillars. Rear:- Timber frame with render infill to left. Canted bay to left under turret roof. Wood framed canted-bay to centre. Gable to right with large 3-light, first floor window over casement doors with decorative leading. Original interiors largely intact. PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.288. M. H. BAILLIE-SCOTT: HOUSES AND GARDENS 1935.

Listing NGR: TQ0008048776