Old Post House
Old Post House, 128 and 130, High Street, Godalming, GU7 1AB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044498
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1947
- List Entry Name:
- Old Post House
- Statutory Address:
- Old Post House, 128 and 130, High Street, Godalming, GU7 1AB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044498
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1947
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Old Post House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Old Post House, 128 and 130, High Street, Godalming, GU7 1AB
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:
- Old Post House, 128 and 130, High Street, Godalming, GU7 1AB
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 96799 43788
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 September 2022 to update the name and address, amend description due to change of use of building and to reformat the text to current standards
SU 9643 NE
12/140
GODALMING
HIGH STREET (north side)
Nos 128 and 130 , Old Post House
(formerly listed Nos 126, 128 and 130 (Post Office), previously listed as No 48)
18.12.47
GV
II
Former house, later Post Office, refurbished and converted to offices in 2017. Late C18 or early C19 with C19 and early C20 additions; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, rear stuccoed; plain tile roof. Three storeys with basement; five bays with addition to rear right. Symmetrical elevation having chamfered plinth with the heads of bricked-up basement windows; and first and second floor bands. Two steps up to six-panel door below fanlight with petalled glazing bars in panelled reveal; wooden architrave has pilasters with leafy capitals and console-bracketed hood. Windows, in reveals, have flat brick arches and projecting stone sills: on ground floor C20 sashes; on first floor sixteen-pane sashes, bay four window missing some glazing bars; on second floor unequally-hung twelve-pane sashes to bays three and five, other bays with painted, dummy windows (of twelve panes). Parapet with flat coping conceals hipped, two-span roof with end stacks. On right, added early C20 porch with door in right return. Right return: three bays as front, but with porch to left bay on ground floor and central first floor window a dummy window; only left bay has a second floor, with a painted window; dormer to right bay.
Rear: on right, main range has stucco scored ashlar; a ground-floor bow window with three curved 16-pane sashes, entablature and modillion cornice; and on first floor a 12-pane sash. On left is added range of two wide bays with curved right-hand corner the right bay set back and having attached columned arcade broken at corner by later door and brickwork; curved tripartite sash to first floor; and dentilled and modillioned eaves cornices.
Listing NGR: SU9681643779
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 291419
- 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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