13, Quarry Street

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SU 99 49SE 8/218 1/5/53

GUILDFORD QUARRY STREET (West Side) No. 13

GV II*

House, now office. Late C13/C14 remains incorporated into C18 building, restored and extended in C20. Red brick front with incised render on ground floor. Stone- coped parapet obscuring plain tiled roof. Two storeys and attic with end stack to left. One 6-pane sash window in attic storey under cambered head, plat band across first floor below. One 16-pane glazing-bar sash window to first floor in open sash box, bowed window on ground floor to left. Door of 6-fielded panels in thin reeded, strip surround with transom - light and hood over. Interior:- braced posts to chamfered spine beam on first floor, wall plates also exposed. The hard chalk wall and doorway discovered in the restoration of the house appear to be the inner face of an arch with a rebate for the door and are important evidence of a substantial early house on the site; only the Church of St. Mary and the Castle being older standing structures in Guildford. First floor room has unusually fine and complete black and white wall painting of late C16 date, seven feet high by twelve feet wide, depicting a gentleman in a meadow in front of a town wall, with strapwork panels to the side. Inscription in two decorative panels reads:

"Slak not thy tyme nor doe not forgett thy synfull lyfe for to amend" and "0 mortall men and wormes meate remember death shall be thy eynde."

Good early C19 circular staircase. Ground floor has front room with four centred stone fireplace.

Listing NGR: SU9965949261