274 AND 276, HIGH STREET

TQ 0049NW GUILDFORD HIGH STREET (South Side)

6/124 Nos 274 and 276 1/5/53 (Formerly listed as No.276 )

GV II

House, now estate agents and offices. Mid C18 with early C19 alterations and extensions to sides and rear of c.1881. Red brick,clad in colourwashed stucco with plain tiled roof to front obscured by tall parapet, C19 extensions under hipped slate roofs. Two storeys and attic under cornice and parapet with end newels) channelled angle piers and rusticated ground floor on smooth-rendered plinth,corbelled stacks to left & right. Three bay front with steep central pediment. Three 6-pane attic sash windows in raised architrave surrounds; key- stones to outer windows,scrolled keystone to centre, with scrolled corbels to sills below. Three 12-pane glazing-bar sash windows to first floor in lugged architrave surrounds with pulvinated friezes over to pediment hoods, outer ones segmental, central one triangular and with modillions and scrolls flanking frieze, foliage garlands suspended from scrolls. Square plate glass ground floor windows with half-oval traceried fans over. Central door of four panels with traceried and glazed top panel under fanlight, and keystoned voussoir surround. Right hand return front:- two windows deep with projecting surrounds, the windows at differing levels indicating the extensions and subsequent alterations. Later C19 wing set back to right with cross-ridge stack and hip-roofed dormer; moulded eaves to base of parapet and plate glass sash fenestration. Ground floor shop extensions not of special interest. C20 extensions to rear not of special interest. Interior:- Large staircase of early C18 style and some door and window surrounds of similar date.

Listing NGR: TQ0013849660