Kings Arms Royal Hotel
18-20, High Street, Godalming, GU7 1EB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044489
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1947
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Arms Royal Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- 18-20, High Street, Godalming, GU7 1EB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044489
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1947
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Arms Royal Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18-20, High Street, Godalming, GU7 1EB
- Statutory Address 2:
- Kings Arms Royal Hotel, 22-26, High Street, Godalming, GU7 1EB
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:
- 18-20, High Street, Godalming, GU7 1EB
- Statutory Address:
- Kings Arms Royal Hotel, 22-26, High Street, Godalming, GU7 1EB
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 97169 43873
Details
SU 9743 NW
13/123
GODALMING
HIGH STREET (north side)
Nos 18-20, and 22-26 (Kings Arms Royal Hotel)
(formerly listed as 6A, 6, 7 and 8)
18.12.1947
GV
II
Hotel and two shops. Mid C18 with some earlier fabric, later C18, C19 and C20 alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond with vitreous headers; plain tile roof.
Three storeys; eleven bays, end bays projecting, central five bays under pediment. Plinth; platbands between floors; stepped brick cornice broken in centre below pediment; parapet with raised pilasters and stepped top broken by pediment. Windows have segmental brick arches with dropped keystones, projecting sills, and sashes with glazing bars, unequally-hung and of nine panes on second floor, all in reveals.
Central entrance has recessed eight-panel door with panelled reveal in Tuscan porch with columns and rear pilasters and entablature with modillion cornice which supports wrought-iron balcony with scrolled central panels in front of French window above which rises tall round-arched window with glazing bars, keystone and imposts.
Basket-arched carriageway with imposts and keystone to bay one; C20 shop front to bays eight-eleven. Hotel sign hangs from iron bracket between bays three and four. Two decorative rainwater heads dated 1753. Various stacks.
Rear: two bay late C18 block to rear of bays two and three. Two storey wing of two builds to rear of bays six and seven, three bays deep, the two bays nearest main range having large sashes with glazing bars under segmental soldier-brick arches flanking blocked ground floor doorway; the end bay has similar sashes but unarched, and mathematical tiling (giving impression of Flemish bond brickwork) to upper part of first floor of side; tile-hung end wall.
Interior: ground floor has C19 panelling, architraves, fireplaces and stair on first floor C17 panelling to partition between rooms and rear corridor, also in left-hand room which has Tudor-arched stone fireplace with initials 'K', 'A' in spandrels; the steps up to this room have an C18-style columnar newel and the doors in to the front rooms are of C18-style, so it is probable that the C17 panelling was reused in an C18 refurbishment; front rooms have cornices; at right end on first floor are two large-panelled timber-framed cross-walls.
Second floor: large-panelled partition wall between rooms and rear corridor which has keyed arch, keyed architrave to stair door and panelled jambs to former window in rear wall; the rooms have plain panelling and cornices.
A coaching house existed on this site in the C17 and in 1698 Peter the Great stayed here (Coombs, p16).
Listing NGR: SU9713543839
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 291402
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Coombs, D, The Godalming Four Hundred, (1978)
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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