Description

TQ 04NW GUILDFORD WARWICKS BENCH
(South-West Side)
4/254 No. 16 (Quarry
13/1/72 Heights) and No. 18
(Undershaw)
II
House, now divided in two. Circa 1910 by M. H. Baillie-Scott in a Tudor style.
Brown brick with plain tiled roofs; stone-flagged entrance court. L-shaped plan
with long projecting wing to left, shorter gabled wing to right. Built into
hillside with single-storey entrance range approached from street, two storeys
across rear. Multiple stacks in a cluster of six to ridge of short wing on right,
4 diagonal stacks with tile-on-edge coping to rear left; further diagonal stacks
to left side. Deep eaves on left hand wing with leaded half dormer to left.
Glazed C20 door to centre with small casement flanking. Lower casement window to
right under tile-on-edge lintel, where ground drops away. Two storey gabled bay
in angle re-entrant to left with 2-light leaded casement window to first floor and
cambered-head single light window below. Two plain 3-light windows to pentice
left of centre on centre range; one leaded window to gable end of right hand wing
over square bay window on ground floor. Ribbed door under 4-centre arched head
to right hand angle re-entrant with carved spandrels and approached along a
cloister of 3 bays, central one on round pillars. Rear:- Timber frame with render
infill to left. Canted bay to left under turret roof. Wood framed canted-bay to
centre. Gable to right with large 3-light, first floor window over casement doors
with decorative leading. Original interiors largely intact.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.288.
M. H. BAILLIE-SCOTT: HOUSES AND GARDENS 1935.

Listing NGR: TQ0008048776

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26658347

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)