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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Official list entry

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

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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

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Legacy System number:: 291496
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'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.