HER 7934 - THE ANGEL HOTEL

Hotel, former posting house. 13th century undercroft below with 16th century and 17th century framed house above, re-clad in the 19th century and extended to rear around courtyard in later 19th century and 20th century. Chalk and brick undercroft, timber framed house above with frame exposed on right hand return front, colourwashed stucco on front with stone-coped parapet obscuring hipped plain tiled roofs, end-on to street, slate roofs over rear ranges. Three storey three windowed range to left, two storey two windowed range to right with stacks to left of centre. Vermiculated-block end pilasters and eaves cornice above. Three bay range to left has 19th century 12-pane glazing-bar sash fenestration, 3 windows on first and second floors in projecting architrave surrounds and with corbelled sills. S-section iron balconys across the first floor and extending to the right hand range. Rusticated ground floor with two tripartite glazing-bar sash windows under voussoir heads. Basement window to left where ground slopes away. Double doors to centre under flat cornice hood on Doric pilasters. Right hand range - has three 12-pane glazing-bar sash windows on the first floor over through- way to courtyard below under elliptical arch with keystone and chamfered piers flanking. Right hand return wall facing throughway:- frame exposed with white- washed brick infill. Braced main posts and wide joists over end bay. Main lintel on left wall of throughway in Jacobean style with lozenge panel decoration. One double bay arcade to right now filled in with leaded glass and strapwork decoration. Jacobean Ionic baluster pilasters to ends with block band and lozenge decorations. Late 19th century and 20th century ranges around a cobbled courtyard to the rear, mainly executed in imitation timber frame style with gables projecting and balcony across the first floor of the northern (rear range) containing a further passage giving access to North Street. Interior:- exposed framing throughout, some imitation and much re-used. Entrance hall has 20th century timber and panelled gallery around sides, deep fireplace to one end and blocked 4-light mullioned window in side wall. Complex roof plan with wind- bracing and braced collar trusses. Undercroft - 13th century chalk and stone with 6 bays of quadripartite rib vaulting. carried on round piers and wall corbels; stepped plinths to centre piers. The Angel undercroft appears to be an exception to the standard plan in that it has an internal staircase to the floor above (as does Nos. 72/4 High Street), but also seems to be unique in having no direct access from the main (High) street. The principal entrance was from the rear of the building and originally there were two windows built in the front wall facing the High Street, one of which was removed in 1939 but originally consisted of 2 chamfered pointed lights: Photographs in N.M.R. MARGARET WOOD: THIRTEENTH CENTURY DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND (Article) ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL 105 (1950)suppl. p.83 and pl. 8L. SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS (OFFPRINT) VOL. LXXIV (1983): (Article) THE UNDERCROFT 72/4 HIGH STR. GUILDFORD BY M. G. O'CONNELL AND SHIRLEY CORKE. PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.282. Listing NGR: SU9964949493

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