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40 to 46, High Street and Crown Court, High Street

40 to 46, High Street, Godalming, GU7 1DY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1044491
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1947
List Entry Name:: 40 to 46, High Street and Crown Court, High Street
Statutory Address:: 40 to 46, High Street, Godalming, GU7 1DY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1044491
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1947
Date of most recent amendment:: 01-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:: 40 to 46, High Street and Crown Court, High Street
Statutory Address 1:: 40 to 46, High Street, Godalming, GU7 1DY
Statutory Address 2:: Crown Court, High Street, Godalming, GU7 1DY

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 40 to 46, High Street, Godalming, GU7 1DY
Statutory Address:: Crown Court, High Street, Godalming, GU7 1DY

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 97101 43873

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/02/2020

SU 9743 NW 13/126

GODALMING HIGH STREET (north side) Nos 40 to 46 (even) and Crown Court

(formerly listed as Nos 40, 46 (even) and (Crown Court), previously listed as Nos 14, 15, 15A, 15B and 16)

18.12.47 23.2.70 II Commercial premises. C16 and C17, altered. Timber frame with brick infill; Bargate rubblestone; brick. Plain tile roofs. Originally a courtyard plan, but now U-shaped, the front range having been demolished. The central jettied part of the left range (part of no 46) is C16; the other parts appear to be later; and the rear range was rebuilt 1950, reusing C16 material (Coombs p16), Two storeys.

Right range (No 40): road front, gable end on: C20 shop front; first floor rendered with C20 transomed three-light window and steeply-pitched gable. Right returns: of galleted stone with brick dressings. Left return: timber-frame exposed, on right having large panels infilled with coursed rubblestone to ground floor, brick above, with one long tension brace down from wall post to midrail and C20 casements in framing, this section under hipped gable. To left, C20 shop front to ground floor; smaller panelling above with three windows, and roof at slightly lower level with ridge stack.

Left range (No 46): road front: two bays, painted; wall post at right corner; late C19 shop front on left having window with C20 glazing and metal grille on right of two-panel door (top panel glazed), all set within architrave of panelled pilasters supporting entablature with paired brackets at ends of fascia carrying dentilled cornice with raised roundels. On right, sash window in architrave with similar entablature and below cornice continued across from shop front. On first floor, two four-pane sashes. Dentilled eaves. Roof hipped on left and with central cross-ridge stack. Left return: rubblestone ground floor with blocked window opening; tile-hung above. Right return: on left, gabled bay of timber frame with brick infill; pointed-arched doorway in right-hand panel; C20 brick plinth below sole plate; tall panels to ground floor; smaller panels above with short cantilevered bay window with leaded casements; tile-hung gable. The three bays to right, the earlier part, have central doorway, full-height panels to ground floor with C20 windows; smaller panels above with three C20 windows and one arch brace from rail to wall plate: two ridge stacks near centre.

Rear range: full-height central throughway with posts arch-braced to wall plate; flanking one storey pedestrian throughways with leaded casements above.

Interior: left range has a central fireplace with chamfered timber lintel and another fireplace at north end (restored); large-scantling joists; upstairs, in No 46A, landing balustrade has twist-profile splat balusters and a queen-post roof truss.

Rear range: large-scantling spinebeams and joists; crown posts with V braces to collar.

Listing NGR: SU9713143926

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

Legacy System number:: 291405
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Coombs, D , The Godalming Four Hundred, (1978), 16

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.