91, Portsmouth Road

SU 94NE GUILDFORD PORTSMOUTH ROAD (East Side)

3/179 No. 91 (formerly listeda 13/1/72 3 and 4 Rectory Place) GV II

Large semi-detached houses. 1883 by R. Norman Shaw. Orange-red brick below with brown fishscale tile hanging above and plain tiled roofs. Two storeys and attics under two gabled dormers to left and a flat roofed dormer to right of centre; three storeys to right in gabled projecting, square bay. Massive cross-ridge stacks to right of centre, multiple stacks to rear right of centre and to left end. Two gabled dormers to left with leaded casement fenestration. 6-light window across the end lights wrapping around the corners, mullioned and transomed leaded windows below breaking through the eaves, supported on roughcast coves. Continuous leaded fenestration across second and first floors of right hand projecting bay, 4 lights either side of moulded central mullion to second floor with two-light return windows wrapping round corners; 4 mullioned and transomed lights below on first floor in similar arrangement. Two 3-light mullioned and transomed windows to ground floor right of centre, projecting square bay window to left. Wide, panelled doors to ends under 4-centre arched heads with moulded surrounds. 4-light flanking window to right of left hand door, 2-light flanking window to left of right hand door. Right hand return front:- Jettied gable above, picturesque asymmetrical arrangement of windows. Dormers and shallow canted bay window to rear. Flat roofed link on right hand end to "The Cottage" not of special interest. Formerly listed as one item with 1 and 2 Rectory Place.

A. SAINT: R. NORMAN SHAW (YALE 1977) p.419. PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.202.

Listing NGR: SU9935448922