Camberley: Thomas Cook, High Street (Listed Building)

Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 12 Jun 2011

There is only one Nationally Listed Building in Camberley town centre and this is it. The English Heritage website describes it thus:- "Numbers 72-74 High Street (Anglia Building Society). House, now offices. C17 altered in C19. Timber framed with rendered cladding below, exposed to eaves with rendered infilling; plain tiled roof. Two storeys, 3 framed bays with two 3-light metal diamond pane leaded casement windows across first floor. Two square bay shop windows to ground floor with "Gothick" arched head glazing bars. Two half glazed doors to centre in similar panelled surrounds under blocked transome lights with flanking half pilasters under triglyph capitals. Bracket between doors supporting fascia boards. Flat lintelled throughway to right end." The Anglia Building Society has long since been subsumed into the Nationwide, while the building next door, 66-68 High Street and occupied by Illuminations, although not listed, appears to be of a similar provenance. The faded road name plate on the building wall above the Thomas Cook sign states "Princess Way" although old Ordnance Survey maps up to 1973 at least call the road "Princess Street".

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