Harris Carpets is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1953. House, shop. 5 related planning applications.
Harris Carpets
- WRENN ID
- eternal-portal-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1953
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Harris Carpets, 149, High Street, GU1 3AD
- OS grid reference
- SU 998 495
- Coordinates
- 51.23603, -0.57174
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harris Carpets is a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates from the 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features whitewashed stucco cladding and plain tiled hipped roofs. It stands three storeys tall and has a modillioned eaves cornice at the base of the parapet. There are stacks located at the rear and ends of the building.
The façade displays a giant Corinthian order on the first and second floors, with angle pilasters and paired central pilasters at the front. The building is four bays wide, with two bays on either side of the central pilasters. The windows are 12-pane glazing-bar sash windows, some of which still have crown glass. Each floor has four windows, and the lintels are adorned with vermiculated keystone blocks. Below, there is a 20th-century plate glass shop front with central doors.
Notably, there is a medieval undercroft beneath the house, which was mentioned by Margaret Wood in her article "Thirteenth Century Domestic Architecture in England" published in the Archaeological Journal in 1950.
Local climate
Harris Carpets 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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