2, Summersby Close
2, Summersby Close, Farncombe, Godalming, GU7 3BG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044487
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 2, Summersby Close
- Statutory Address:
- 2, Summersby Close, Farncombe, Godalming, GU7 3BG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044487
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 2, Summersby Close
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, Summersby Close, Farncombe, Godalming, GU7 3BG
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:
- 2, 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:
- SU9767145153
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/02/2020
SU 9745 SE
7/208
GODALMING
FARNCOMBE
SUMMERSBY CLOSE
No 2
(Formerly listed as Nos 2 and 3, SUMMERSBY CLOSE, GODALMING)
GV
II
House. Probably late C15, altered C16, early C17, C18 and C19; subdivided late C20. Timber frame with wattle and daub infill, clad in brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. Three-bay open hall house; smoke bay and floor inserted later C16, inglenook fireplace inserted early C17. Two storeys; four first floor windows, with C20 lean-to (part of No 3) on left. Board door in wood frame below segmental brick arch; inserted one-light window to left and windows of three lights and two lights to right, the latter small and with segmental brick arch.
First floor windows, set under eaves, comprise two small square lights, a two-light window breaking eaves, and a three-light window. Top of wall post visible on left. Stepped dentilled eaves. Roof half-hipped on left; hipped with gablet and rebuilt (C20) stack on right. Left return (No 3): lean-to has board door and two two-light windows; gable of main range is tile-hung with two two-light windows.
Interior: timber frame exposed, having: large scantling joweled posts; original hollow-moulded cross-beams at trusses; one surviving arch brace to tie-beam of left-hand truss (mortices from others); inserted chamfered spine-beam with curved tep stops supporting chamfered joists; roof not inspected, but recorded as having queen-post roof trusses, clasped purlines, curved wind braces and sooted rafters (D.B.R.G. report).
This range was relegated to use as a service wing when a large addition was made to it in the early-mid C19, the addition now being a separate dwelling (Summersby House), 1, Summers Road (q.v.).
Domestic Buildings Research Group, Report No 3236.
Listing NGR: SU9767145153
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 291496
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Domestic Buildings Research Group Report in Report Number 3236, ()
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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