Dressmakers' Den Godalming Museum
DRESSMAKERS' DEN, 107 AND 109, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044527
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1947
- List Entry Name:
- Dressmakers' Den Godalming Museum
- Statutory Address:
- DRESSMAKERS' DEN, 107 AND 109, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044527
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1947
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Dressmakers' Den Godalming Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- DRESSMAKERS' DEN, 107 AND 109, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- GODALMING MUSEUM, 109A, HIGH STREET
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:
- DRESSMAKERS' DEN, 107 AND 109, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- GODALMING MUSEUM, 109A, 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 96856 43808
Details
GODALMING HIGH STREET
SU 9643 NE
(south side)
12/118
Nos 107 and 109
(Dressmakers' Den) and
18.12.47
109A (Godalming Museum)
(formerly listed as No 68)
GV
II
2 houses now shop and museum Of 2 builds, probably early C15 and later C15 or
early C16; altered; refronted early-mid C18; altered C20. Timber frame with
plastered wattle and daub infill; refronted and mostly clad in painted brick in
Flemish bond. Concealed plain tile roof. Earliest building of 2 storeys, 1 x 2
bays (possibly truncated at rear), set gable-end to road; built adjoining this
on the right is a 2-storey, 3-bay Wealden house with central open hall and
jettied end bays, the right-hand bay now incorporated in no 111 (q.v.); the
whole building refronted C18, presenting facade of 2½ storeys, 5 bays. High
Street elevation: early C20 shop front has 2 recessed shop doors each glazed
above a fielded panel the recesses with tessellated pavements and moulded
plaster ceilings; later C20 door on right (to 109A); plate-glass shop windows on
glazed brown-brick plinths; flanking fluted pilasters and console brackets;
corniced fascia with shaped pediment to centre. 1st floor: wooden cross-windows
with old leaded glazing and iron casements under flat brick arches. 2nd floor:
platband; shorter, blind windows. Roof hipped on right and with ridge stack to
right. Left return: left bay has timber-framing on 1st floor with tall panels
and an old 3-light diamond-leaded casement window. C20 wing added to rear left
and rear addition not of special interest. Interior: on 1st floor timber-
framing is exposed. The left-hand building has short arch braces to central
cambered tie-beam which has traces of old painting and supports crown post with
broad braces to collar purlin; rear bay has collared rafters. The former
Wealden house has timber-framed partition walls separating end and central bays
and crown-post trusses, the posts arch-braced to tie-beams and straight braced
to collar purlin (post and tie beam of left truss removed).
Listing NGR: SU9686243797
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 291396
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Domestic Buildings Research Group Report in Report Number 3573, ()
Domestic Buildings Research Group Report in Report Number 3574, ()
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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