Walnut Tree Cottage

125, BINSCOMBE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1044564
Date first listed:
01-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:
Walnut Tree Cottage
Statutory Address:
125, BINSCOMBE LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1044564
Date first listed:
01-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:
Walnut Tree Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
125, BINSCOMBE LANE
Statutory Address 2:
WALNUT TREE COTTAGE, 127, BINSCOMBE LANE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
125, BINSCOMBE LANE
Statutory Address:
WALNUT TREE COTTAGE, 127, BINSCOMBE LANE

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 96718 45882

Details

GODALMING BINSCOMBE LANE SU 9645 NE (south-west side) 4/12 Nos 125 and 127 (Walnut Tree Cottage) GV II

House, now two. C17 added to and altered C18, C19 and C20. Timber frame with wattle and daub infill mostly replaced by painted brick infill; brick, mostly painted or rendered. Plain tile roofs. 2 storeys. 5 bays in all: bay 3 is the earliest bay, C17 or possibly earlier, timber-framed, with rear-wall chimney; bay 4 is a later C17 timber-framed addition; bay 2 is a late-C17 or early-C18 brick addition; bay 5, taller and of brick, added C19; bay 1, taller, set back, and of brick, added 1987-8. The timber-framing of bays 3 and 4 comprises wall-posts, mid- rails, wall-plate, tension braces, tall rectangular panels to bay 3, shorter square panels to bay 4. Doors and windows C20: board door to bay 4 (to no.127) with 1-light window to left; gabled porch to bay 1 (to no.125) with 1-light window to right; all other windows are C20 2-light, wood-framed, leaded casements, bay 3 having 2 on each floor. External stack at right end; external stack to rear of bay 3. Rear: rubble and brick plinth to bays 2 and 3; narrow orangey bricks, in stretcher bond on right, English bond on left. Interior: square-panelled cross- walls between 3 central bays; chamfered joists with lambs tongue stops in bay 2; bay 3 has similar joists and spine-beam ithe floor possibly inserted), fireplace with timber bressummer and bread oven in side; and on 1st floor a reverse curved brace in rear wall; former end walls between bays 1 and 2, and 4 and 5 have 3 posts on tie-beam; queen-strut roof trusses with through purlins and old rafters over no.125.

Listing NGR: SU9671845882

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
291281
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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