72, 74, 76 and 78, High Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1953. A Medieval House, offices. 5 related planning applications.
72, 74, 76 and 78, High Street
- WRENN ID
- steep-panel-claret
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1953
- Type
- House, offices
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- 72, 74, 76 and 78, High Street, GU1 3HE
- OS grid reference
- SU 996 494
- Coordinates
- 51.23537, -0.57363
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
72, 74, 76, and 78 High Street is a house that has been divided into offices. The building features a 13th-century undercroft beneath a house built in 1803, which has been altered in the 20th century. The undercroft is made of chalk and stone, supported by brick props, while the upper part is constructed from orange/red brick with some tile hanging on the right-hand return front. The building has a stone-coped parapet that obscures a plain-tiled roof. It stands three storeys above the undercroft and has three bays with stacks on the left. The front is regular, but the central bay is now blocked. The outer bays on the second and first floors have tripartite sash windows under gauged brick heads, with only the windows on the right retaining their glazing bars. The ground floor is stone-dressed, featuring two office windows at the ends, both of which are mullioned and transomed with triple round-arched upper lights. There are paired doors to the left and right of the center, each under fanlights and with deep bracketed hoods above. In front of No. 72, there are stone steps with cast iron railings featuring an anthemion pattern.
The undercroft measures approximately 10 meters by 6 meters and is 3 meters high. It consists of three bays deep with a groined ribbed roof that rises from two round piers. The arch corbels are carved with grotesques and human heads. Remnants of stairs from the former street level can still be seen, suggesting that the undercroft was likely used as a shop. The undercroft is a scheduled Ancient Monument, designated as Surrey Monument No. 166.
Local climate
72, 74, 76 and 78, High Street 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.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2015
- 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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