22-32, LONDON STREET

The buildings at numbers 22 to 32 London Street, Chertsey, are a group of commercial and residential properties dating back to the 18th century, with subsequent alterations.

Number 22 is an 18th-century building, altered over time. It is two storeys high and has two windows. It features recessed sash windows with glazing bars and an asbestos tile roof. The western side contains a ground-floor shop with a canopy and a central entrance. A house entrance and single window are located to the east.

Number 24, also 18th-century and altered, is two storeys high with three windows. It is rendered and limewashed and has near-flush-frame sash windows on the first floor with glazing bars. The ground floor is a shop with a wooden frame, a central entrance, and a continuous entablature.

Number 26 is likely 18th-century and altered, and is two storeys high with two windows. It now has metal casements with glazing bars. The first floor is stuccoed, lined, and painted, with a tile roof. The ground floor has a shop front with a wooden frame and sheet glass.

Number 28, dating from the early 18th century and altered, was probably formerly an inn. It is three storeys high, with four windows on the first floor and two on the second. It is stuccoed, lined, and painted, with a brick cope to the parapet. It has near-flush-frame sash windows with glazing bars, and a bar window and entrance at ground floor level, set within a continuous wooden frame with pilasters and entablature. The roof has renewed tiles.

Number 30, dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, is two storeys high with four windows, including a window above a coach entrance. It is stuccoed, with a rusticated ground floor and arched windows. It features sash windows with glazing bars, arched windows with radial glazing bars at the head, an arched entrance with a fanlight, and a door with flush beaded panels. A first-floor band runs across the building. It has a moulded cornice below a parapet with a stone cope and a pantile roof.

Number 32 is probably 18th-century, with extensive reconstruction. It includes a front gable with a cambered-headed window, a floor band, and two first-floor mullion and transom wooden casements with sheet glazing. A surviving 18th-century window remains on the return. The ground floor is a modern shop.

The buildings at numbers 22 to 32 (even) are valued as a group.