The Square Surgery

THE SQUARE SURGERY, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1044522
Date first listed:
23-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:
The Square Surgery
Statutory Address:
THE SQUARE SURGERY, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1044522
Date first listed:
23-Feb-1970
Date of most recent amendment:
01-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:
The Square Surgery
Statutory Address 1:
THE SQUARE SURGERY, HIGH STREET

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
THE SQUARE SURGERY, HIGH STREET

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 97192 43844

Details

GODALMING HIGH STREET SU 9743 NW (south side) 13/104 The Square Surgery (formerly listed as "The 23.2.1970 Square") GV II

Hall and cross-wing, now surgery. C15 or early C16; early and later C17; altered C18 and C20. Timber frame with painted brick infill; painted brick in Flemish bond; rubblestone; tile-hung. Plain tile roofs. 2 storeys. 3-bay probably former open hall range with cross-wing on left and wing to rear left; a further parallel cross-wing on left. High Street elevation: Main cross-wing has brick ground floor with C20 bay window with leaded casements and hipped roof; timber frame above has posts, rails, braces from posts to tie-beam, and in gable two tiers of collars and queen posts. Hall, on right, has C18 frontage, altered C20, of painted brick below tile-hung 1st floor; 2-panel door under pent canopy between left-hand bays; casement windows on each floor of 2, 3, and 2 lights; parapet partly concealing roof which at right end is hipped with gablet, and at left end has hip of roof of taller rear wing rising above it; stack to rear of central bay with T-section flues. Further gabled cross-wing on left is tile-hung. Rear: ground floor mostly of rubblestone. External hall stack has brick quoins and rises in brick above offset. Tall-panelled timber frame visible on 1st floor to left of stack. Wing: timber-framed on 1st floor, the left return having 3 early C17 irregularly-framed bays with later C17 square- panelled bay at end. Range on right of wing mostly brick and mostly C20 not of special interest. Interior: hall and cross-wing have large-scantling joists laid flat; plank and muntin panelling (or walling) removed from between hall and cross-wing (indicated by mortices in soffit of cross-beam) but survives between left and central bays of hall; central bay of hall has stop-chamfered joists, moulded arrises to cross- and spine-beams, and inglenook fireplace with timber jambs and lintel. C20 stair with moulded handrail, reused turned balusters and reused balustrade to landing on 1st floor, hall framing has braces from posts to mid-rail.

Listing NGR: SU9718943836

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Legacy System number:
291381
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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