Priory Antiques
PRIORY ANTIQUES, 29, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044541
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Antiques
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY ANTIQUES, 29, CHURCH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044541
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Antiques
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY ANTIQUES, 29, CHURCH 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:
- PRIORY ANTIQUES, 29, CHURCH 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 96836 43925
Details
GODALMING CHURCH STREET SU 9643 NE (west side) 12/59 No 29 (Priory Antiques) 23.2.70 GV II
Open hall house, now shop and accommodation. C15 with C16 addition and altera- tions C17 and later. Timber frame with plastered wattle and daub infill; rubblestone and later brickwork at rear; plain tile roof. 2 storeys; 1 x 4 bays, the rearmost bay added C16. C19 shop front has pilasters with plain capitals and plinths framing central C20 part-glazed, small-paned door and flanking 2-light windows. Jettied first floor has square panels, large scant- ling wall posts jowled at top and bottom and with large scantling arched braces down to mid-rail, and a 4-light diamond-leaded casement window. Roof ridge runs from front to back, with hip at front rising into tile-hung gablet; large brick stack to ridge. Right return: on left, large square-panelled framing with large braces and inserted leaded casement windows of 2 lights, with diamond-set mullion, and of 5 lights. On right, added rear bay has some timber-framing, on rubblestone plinth at right corner, including jowled wall post and arched brace, but mostly rebuilt in brick to allow fireplaces to be built against wall, with chimney rising above in front roof slope. Interior: timber-framing visible, showing former rear wall between rearmost bays. On first floor, central room has truss with large scantling arched braces up to cambered tie-beam which has 3 mortices in top from former crown post and down braces; at rear of front bay is another cambered tie-beam with crown post and mortices from former down braces. In roof, front crown post has mortices from 4 former arch braces, only that at front now surviving; the crown post is of large scantling, square-on-plan, unchamfered and supporting short sumirine section of collar purlin; behind this crown post is the inserted stack; beyond that survive 3 pairs of original, sooted, halved rafters with collars and carpenters' marks; former end-wall truss between rearmost bays, the collar having mortices in top and soffit for former posts; rear bay has collared truss, clasped purlins straight wind braces and old, bridled, rafters; front bay reroofed probably C16 or early C17, having queen-post truss on right and clasped purlins which extend into roof space of No 31 (q.v.). Domestic Buildings Research Group, Report No 1324.
Listing NGR: SU9683543925
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 291330
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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Domestic Buildings Research Group Report in Report Number 1324, ()
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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