Description

GUILDFORD STREET
1.
5123
TL 0912 2/6 No 40
II GV

2.
Impressive hat factory building dated 1905, in debased Jacobean style. Colourwashed
brick with Welsh slate roof. Five storeys and attics, five bay facade.
Central turret is fronted by Jacobean gable surmounted by small pediment bearing
date; paired pilasters with frieze having swag decoration above two small
casement windows. Parapet with flat columns at bay divisions, two topped
with finials. Dentil eaves cornice. Upper three storeys divided into bays
by plain pilasters; three light casements with slightly arched heads. Single
keystones to fourth floor and triple keystone motif to second and third floors.
Moulded cill cornice to second floor, and similar shallow cornice above first
floor linking keystones to first floor windows. These have arched heads springing
from capitals of rendered pilasters stretching down to the ground. Three
central ground floor windows with slightly arched heads and keystones. Left
hand doorway replaced by modern window. Recessed double doors up five steps
to right.

Listing NGR: TL0919221483

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26607284

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Recommended Books

• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)