St Christopher's Cottage
ST CHRISTOPHER'S COTTAGE, BINSCOMBE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188642
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1990
- List Entry Name:
- St Christopher's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ST CHRISTOPHER'S COTTAGE, BINSCOMBE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188642
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1990
- List Entry Name:
- St Christopher's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST CHRISTOPHER'S COTTAGE, BINSCOMBE LANE
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:
- ST CHRISTOPHER'S COTTAGE, 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 96889 46184
Details
GODALMING BINSCOMBE LANE SU 94 NE (south side, off) 1/11 17.7.90 St Christopher's Cottage - II
House. Second ½ C16 with C17, C18 and C20 alterations, including C18 cladding. Timber frame with wattle and daub infill clad in galleted Bargate rubblestone with red brick dressings. Plain tile roof. 3-bay house with smoke-bay to centre bay, left bay partitioned off on both floors; fireplace inserted and out- shut added to rear right C17; outshut extended and the building clad, C18. Garden front: 2 storeys, two 1st-floor windows. Old brick quoins; later brick surrounds to openings. Late C20 diamond-leaded door and windows. Door between right-hand bays has small square light to right and windows of 2 and 3 lights to left ; two 3-light windows to 1st floor. Former ridge stack in line with door removed; stack at right end. Rear: outshut of rubblestone on left (the earliest part) with buttresses, two 2-light windows and catslide roof; on right of brick, heightened late C20 with tile-hung walls; right bay (rear of main range) of painted brick in Flemish bond with rubblestone plinth and small ground-floor window. Right return: wall posts and tie-beam exposed; small, bricked-up, 3-light window with brick surround on left, and another tiny blocked opening on right; late C20 porch added on right, not of special interest. Left return: a 2-light window to left on each floor; line of former flue on right. Interior: exposed framing in former rear wall and in partition wall between left-hand bays on both floors; central bay has brick inglenook with bread oven; large scantling chamfered cross-beam and square section joists to left-hand and central bays. Truss between left-hand bays has cambered tie-beam with queen posts, collar, through purlins and wattle and daub infill; wattle and daub partition at stack (in central bay).
Listing NGR: SU9688946184
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 291280
- 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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