Sollys Mill
Sollys Mill, Mill Lane, Godalming, GU7 1EY
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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.
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 291457
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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