Guildford British Legion

This late 18th-century building, now the Guildford British Legion, occupies a prominent position on Quarry Street. The main range is constructed of deep brown brick with a rendered plinth, while the section to the left is whitewashed stucco. It features plain tiled, mansard roofs with parallel ranges over the main section, and a lower, renewed roof set back to the left. The building is two storeys with attics, partially hidden behind stone-coped parapets. The right-hand range is double-pile in construction, with end stacks and a brick dentilled cornice to the eaves. It has two flat-roofed dormers, one on each roof, and three tripartite glazing-bar sash windows with gauged-brick heads on the first floor. The ground floor has two tripartite sashes; the left window incorporates stained glass in the lower lights, while the upper halves of both ground floor windows lack glazing bars, also beneath gauged-brick heads. The central double doors are panelled and half-glazed, set within a panelled and glazed surround with panelled reveals and a traceried fanlight under a depressed oval arch, supported by a pilaster surround and a moulded hood. To the left is a two-window range with a plat band over the ground floor and a hip-roofed dormer. The first floor features two 12-pane glazing-bar sash windows, and a half-glazed door in a half-glazed surround. Round-arched double doors on the right provide access to a cobbled throughway that leads down steps to a lower level at the rear. The rear elevation includes a rendered, canted bay oriel with a tripartite front sash window on the first floor, supported by iron columns, and two doors with flat hoods above them. Photographs of the building are held within the National Monuments Record.