Russell House

Russell House is a house that has been converted into a shop and offices. It dates from the early 18th century and features incised colourwashed render cladding over a wood and glass shop front at the bottom. The building has a plain tiled hipped roof that faces the street. It stands two storeys tall with attics and has rusticated angle quoins, a dentilled eaves cornice, and plat bands above the ground and first floors. There are stacks located at the rear.

The front of the building has a large flat-roofed dormer, dating from the late 19th or early 20th century, which contains four lights and diamond panel decorations on the end jambs. The façade is three bays wide, with three 12-pane unhorned glazing-bar sash windows on the second floor, some of which contain old glass, all set in lugged architrave surrounds. The first floor features three plate glass sash windows, also in architrave surrounds and topped with cornice hoods. The ground floor has a shop front that includes glazed doors in a recess to the right and panelled doors to the left. Wooden attached fluted Ionic columns frame the ends of the ground floor.

Russell House is notable as the birthplace of John Russell, a renowned watercolourist, who lived from 1745 to 1806 and is considered Guildford's most famous artist.