156, 158 AND 160, HIGH STREET

SU 9949SE & SU 9949NE GUILDFORD HIGH STREET (South Side)

8/104 & 5/104 Nos 156, 158 & 160 1/5/53

GV II

3 houses, now shops and offices. C17 origins with late C18 front. Timber framed core clad in colourwashed render on the front, fishscale tile hanging on left hand return front, wooden shop fronts below and 3 parallel-range,hipped plain tiled roofs above obscured by parapets and end-on to street. Three storeys, symmetrical 5 bay facade with end stacks. Central canted bay oriel rising through first and second floors, modillioned eaves cornice above. 12-pane glazing-bar sash fenestration with four windows on each floor, two either side of central oriel, the first floor windows with no glazing bars in lower sash light. 12-pane glazing- bar sash windows in canted bay, modillioned cornice across the first floor. Deep fascia across the ground floor with architrave moulding and zig-zag band. Plate glass shop fronts on ground floor, that to right with panelled piers. 4-centre arched entrance on Jacobean style pilasters, doubled, glazed doors to rear of central recess. Interior:- largely altered. Staircase moved to link first and second floors, originally brought from Weston Lodge, Albury. Photographs in N.M.R.

V.C.H. SURREY (1967 Edn) Vol. III p.73.

Listing NGR: SU9985249502