Meath Home
MEATH HOME, WESTBROOK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044449
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Meath Home
- Statutory Address:
- MEATH HOME, WESTBROOK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044449
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Meath Home
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEATH HOME, WESTBROOK ROAD
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MEATH HOME, WESTBROOK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Godalming
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 96557 44071
Details
GODALMING WESTBROOK ROAD SU 9644 SE (west side) 10/212 Meath Home 3.10.88 - II
House, now residential home. Probably c.1785 for N Godbold (Pevsner p.259), probably with earlier parts; much altered mid C19 (for Lord Brassey); C20 addi- tions and alterations. Stuccoed; Welsh slate roof. 2i and 3 storeys. Garden front: plinth. Main range of 1:5:1 bays, end bays projecting and each having: vermiculated quoins; canted bay window to ground floor with central French window; pilaster jambs with capitals; frieze; cornice; balustrade in front of wide tripartite lst-floor window; 2nd-floor Diocletian window in architrave on sill blocks. The 5 central bays have a central French window, otherwise 4-pane sashes, shorter on 2nd floor, with projecting sills. Eaves cornice; frieze with panels, dentilled cornice and blocking course. Three lateral stacks at right end. On left, set back is a 3-storey, 5-bay addition with rusticated quoins to left; sashes; 1st-floor cornice; projecting single-storey, balustraded, flat- roofed addition on right; roof hipped on left and with stack at left side. Main entrance on right return in porch facing garden front with board door, side column, entablature with cornice and blocking course. Behind this is 2-storey addition of rubble brought to course with brick dressings and plain tile roof. Right return of main range has 3 sashes with glazing bars at different heights. Rear: to main range old door with 6 raised and fielded panels; above it an unequally-hung 9-pane sash. Projecting block to right of this has tall round- arched stair window, a sash with glazing bars to 1st floor, and a 16-pane sash to 2nd floor; windows otherwise 4-pane or 2-pane sashes. Interior: mostly C19, but stair hall has good, coved, ceiling with decorative Adam-style plasterwork and acanthus-leaf cornices, the open-well stair mid C20. The building is important in being the home of General James oglethorpe, founder of the American colony of Georgia (1732), until his death in 1785. N Pevsner, The Buildings of Enqland, Surrey (1971, 2nd edition).
Listing NGR: SU9655744071
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 291498
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 259
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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