Thorpe'S Bookshop is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. Bookshop. 3 related planning applications.
Thorpe'S Bookshop
- WRENN ID
- white-banister-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- Bookshop
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SU 9949NE GUILDFORD HIGH STREET (South Side)
5/109 No. 170 (Thorpe's Bookshop)
GV II Book shop, former Constitutional Hall. Early C19 with C20 extensions to rear. Colourwashed brick with stone-coped parapet obscuring plain-tiled roof. Three storeys, with stacks to rear. Regular front, two 15-Pane sash windows on second floor, two 20-pane sashes on the first floor below, both under gauged brick heads now painted over. Tripartite glazing-bar sash shop front window to ground floor left,with fluted end pilasters and flanking scroll brackets to blind box above. Arched entrance to right with chamfered piers,flanking pilasters supporting entablature above. Carved roses in spandrels of arch and with "Constitutional Hall" written on arch face. Greek-key patterned paving on floor of entrance hall to inner double, panelled, doors under fixed overlight. Interior:- C19 square banister staircase. C20 extensions to rear not of special interest.
Listing NGR: SU9992249530
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