The Guild House

In the entry for:-

SP 14 38 7/212

CHIPPING CAMPDEN SHEEP STREET (West side) The Guild House

the description shall be amended to read:

Former miller's house. Probably early C18, but said to have earlier origins. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; hipped and half-hipped stone slate roof with stack to rear right. 2 storeys with attic and basement; 2-window front. Flight of steps to off-centre right-hand entrance, with part-glazed C19 door in wooden frame under stone hood with carved brackets. 2/2-pane horned sashes throughout in tooled surrounds with keystones. First-floor band continues around house. Right return has plank door with chamfered jambs and lintel, and 2-light chamfered stone-mullioned window with metal multi-pane fixed light. Hipped dormers. Phoenix fire insurance mark to front and District fire insurance to rear. Interior: boxed beams and ground-floor window shutters. Part of C18 dentil cornice and panelled cupboards flanking fireplace in right-hand front'room; open staircase to left, and C18 roof structure with roughly chamfered purlins. Historical note: this building was part of the premises occupied by the Guild of Craftsmen - see The Old Silk Mill (qv).

1. 5224 SP 1438 7/212

SHEEP STREET (west side) The Guild House

II GV

2. Early C18 altered. Two storeys, basement and attic. Rubble with band over ground floor and hipped Cotswold stone roof. Hipped casement dormer. Two windows with beaded surrounds, keys and bull-nose cills, cross-glazed sashes. Restored stone brackets to hood over half-glazed door. Steps up to doorway. One window to south return. Basement to south has a chamfered doorway and a mullion window. Fire Insurance Mark. Probably built circa 1710 with the Silk Mill (qv). Taken over by the Guild of Craftsmen under C R Ashbee when they moved from East London in 1901.

Listing NGR: SP1495638964