Sollys Mill

Sollys Mill, Mill Lane, Godalming, GU7 1EY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1044474
Date first listed:: 26-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:: Sollys Mill
Statutory Address:: Sollys Mill, Mill Lane, Godalming, GU7 1EY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1044474
Date first listed:: 26-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:: Sollys Mill
Statutory Address 1:: Sollys Mill, Mill Lane, Godalming, GU7 1EY

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:: Sollys Mill, Mill Lane, Godalming, GU7 1EY

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 96640 43870

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/02/2020

SU 9643 NE 12/176

GODALMING MILL LANE (south side) Sollys Mill

(formerly listed as Commercial building to north of Mill Lane Engineering) 26.3.90

II Former hosiery factory. Early 1870s. Painted brick in Flemish bond, partly on plinth of rubblestone with brick quoins and chamfered brick top course. Welsh slate roof. Three storeys, 8 x 2 bays.

Ground floor: bays divided by columns which support fascia board and cornice; three-light transomed small-pane windows, that to right bay bricked up. First and second floors: bays defined by pilasters; sixteen-pane windows to first floor, eight-pane windows above, all in reveals with projecting sills and segmental brick arches. Hipped roof with broad stack at left end.

Rear: on ground floor each bay has recess with tall window as front, the lower sections infilled (except to second window from left), upper windows as before; second bay from left has reinforced glass to lower windows and second floor fire door in former window; third bay from left has blocked ground and second floor windows and second floor fire door; to right of centre, two-storey pent-roofed outshut with first floor loading door and window, four-panel door, to right return and one storey outshut to left return.

Returns: blind ground floor except for segment-arched doorway to left return, narrow windows with flat brick arches above four-pane sashes to first floor, two-pane sashes to second floor.

This was an early steam-powered hosiery factory: the engine house and stack have now gone (John Janway pers-comm).

Listing NGR: SU9664043870

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 291457
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.