THE COURT

THE COURT, 1-15, BURY FIELDS

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1029303
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1953
List Entry Name:: THE COURT
Statutory Address:: THE COURT, 1-15, BURY FIELDS

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Date:: 2001-07-24
Reference:: IOE01/03023/30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1029303
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1953
List Entry Name:: THE COURT
Statutory Address 1:: THE COURT, 1-15, BURY FIELDS

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE COURT, 1-15, BURY FIELDS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Surrey
District:: Guildford (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 99413 49140

Details

SU 9949 NW GUILDFORD BURY FIELDS (West Side)

7/7 Nos 1 to 15 (consec) 1/5/53 (The Court) GV II Communal house block. 1902 by H. Thackery Turner. Red-brown brick below with colourwashed render above over tiled drip course; steeply pitched, plain-tiled roofs. Half-H shape plan with end wings splayed out. Two storeys and attics in large gabled dormers. Cross-ridge stacks, 3 to each end wing, and 8 paired stacks on front and rear pitches of centre range; all with brick-dentilled corbelled tops. End pier buttresses to inner sides of wings, deep eaves above throughout. Wood-framed casement fenestration with moulded architrave surrounds in dormers, butting into the roof on the jambs. Three, 3-light and one 2-light gabled dormer on south wing, five 3-light and one 2-light dormer on north. Eight 3-light dormers, in 4 pairs either side of stacks, on main range. Three 4-light windows on first floor of south wing with one 3-light window to right and one 2- light window to left. Five 4-light windows on first floor of north wing with one 2-light window in corner. Eight 4-light windows on the first floor of the main range. Five 4-light windows to north, eight on main range and 4 on south. Panelled doors in porch recesses under segmental heads with 3 sets of paired half- glazed doors to main range and single doors in angles. Single 6-panel doors in wings. Small gabled porch on end of north wing with steps up to door with original fittings. One of a number of buildings by Turner in the locality.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND: SURREY (1971) P.291.

Listing NGR: SU9941049146

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Legacy System number:: 288869
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 291

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.