Summersby House

Summersby House, 1, Summersby Close, Farncombe, Godalming, GU7 3BG

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1044486
Date first listed:
01-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:
Summersby House
Statutory Address:
Summersby House, 1, Summersby Close, Farncombe, Godalming, GU7 3BG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1044486
Date first listed:
01-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:
Summersby House
Statutory Address 1:
Summersby House, 1, Summersby Close, Farncombe, Godalming, GU7 3BG

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Summersby House, 1, Summersby Close, Farncombe, Godalming, GU7 3BG

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:
SU9767545150

Details

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

SU 9745 SE
7/209

GODALMING
FARNCOMBE
SUMMERSBY CLOSE
No 1, Summersby House

(Formerly listed as Summersby House, No 29, SUMMERS ROAD, GODALMING,
(also known as No 1 Summersby Close))

GV
II
House. Mid C19, altered late C20. Red brick in Flemish bond, Welsh slate roof. Two storeys, 3 x 1 bays. Symmetrical elevation. The brickwork of the ground floor right-hand bay rebuilt late C20. Two steps up to six-panel door (the four upper panels raised and fielded) with overlight, in panelled reveal. Wooden doorcase having fluted pilasters, bowed frieze to entablature and flat-mullioned cornice. Windows are sashes with glazing bars in reveals with flat brick arches and projecting sills. Oversailing hipped roof with two low stacks at rear. Returns have ground floor windows as front and blind first floor windows.

Interior: straight-flight stair with stick balusters, columnar newels and moulded treads. Ground floor fireplaces have bowed, grooved jambs and roundels at ends of frieze, fireplace in right-hand room of polished stone.

Built as a front extension of the range behind, No 2 Summersby Close (q.v.) which became the service range. The right-hand bay was used as a shop prior to the late C20 alteration.

Listing NGR: SU9767545150

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
291492
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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