274 and 276, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1953. House. 10 related planning applications.
274 and 276, High Street
- WRENN ID
- ghost-timber-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- 274 and 276, High Street, GU1 3JL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 001 496
- Coordinates
- 51.23743, -0.56687
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 274 and 276 on High Street is a house that has been converted into estate agents and offices. It dates from the mid-18th century, with early 19th-century alterations and extensions added around 1881. The building is constructed of red brick and covered in colourwashed stucco, featuring a plain tiled roof at the front that is hidden by a tall parapet. The later extensions at the sides and rear have hipped slate roofs.
The structure is two storeys high with an attic, topped with a cornice and parapet that includes end newels, channelled angle piers, and a rusticated ground floor on a smooth-rendered plinth. There are corbelled stacks on both the left and right sides. The front has three bays with a steep central pediment. The attic features three 6-pane sash windows set in raised architrave surrounds, with keystones on the outer windows and a scrolled keystone in the center, supported by scrolled corbels beneath the sills. The first floor has three 12-pane glazing-bar sash windows in lugged architrave surrounds, each with pediment hoods; the outer hoods are segmental while the central one is triangular, adorned with modillions and scrolls flanking a frieze, with foliage garlands hanging from the scrolls.
The ground floor has square plate glass windows with half-oval traceried fans above. The central entrance door has four panels with a traceried and glazed top panel beneath a fanlight, all framed by a keystoned voussoir surround. The right-hand return front has two windows with projecting surrounds, positioned at different levels, indicating the extensions and alterations made over time. A later 19th-century wing is set back to the right, featuring a cross-ridge stack and a hip-roofed dormer, with moulded eaves at the base of the parapet and plate glass sash windows. The ground floor shop extensions and 20th-century additions at the rear are not of special interest.
Inside, there is a large staircase in the style of the early 18th century, along with some door and window surrounds from the same period.
Local climate
274 and 276, 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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