Registrar's Office the Old House
16A, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189444
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Registrar's Office the Old House
- Statutory Address:
- 16A, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189444
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Registrar's Office the Old House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16A, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 18A, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- 18B, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 4:
- REGISTRAR'S OFFICE, 16, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 5:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 18-20, CHURCH 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.
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:
- 16A, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 18A, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 18B, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- REGISTRAR'S OFFICE, 16, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 18-20, 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 96852 43907
Details
GODALMING CHURCH STREET SU 9643 NE (east side) 12/68 Nos 16 (Registrar's Office), 16A, 18-20 (The 23.2.70 Old House), 18A and 18B GV II
Hall and cross-wing house (Nos 16, 16A, 18, 18A and 18B) and house (Nos 20 and part of 18A), now Registrar's Office, shop and 3 flats. C16 of different builds, altered. Timber frame with painted wattle and daub infill, brick under- building, some rubblestone and tile-hanging. Plain tile roofs. On left No 20 and part of No 18A is of 2 storeys, 2 bays, having recessed central part-glazed door flanked by C20 3-light leaded windows; large square panelling to first floor and two 3-light windows with leaded casements; single-flue stack on right in front roof pitch; rear has brick infill to timber frame, some rubblestone, and on right C17 external stack of rubblestone with brick quoins to offset and tall brick flue, heightened. The rest of the range, to right of No 20/18A, is earlier, of 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays, the right bay an addition, the left bay a gabled cross-wing. Right bays have ground floor of c.1900 brick with ashlar dressings, chamfered plinth, 2 Tudor-arched moulded doorways with board doors flanking central Tudor-arched window and with narrower similar window to outer side of each. First floor timber-framed with a 4-light leaded casement window on left and 3-light transomed window with diamond-leaded casement to right rising under gablet. Late Cl9 attic floor on left with 4-light leaded casement window. Stack to rear roof pitch on right. Cross-wing: shop front has timber pilasters and recessed door. Jettied first floor has arch-braced timber-framing, a 6-light mullion and transom window and an old, very small, window to far right with diamond leading and some old glass. Gable is tile-hung with decorative bands of fishscale tiles and has a 3-light window with 1-light window above, both with leaded lights and tile pentices. Interior: No 20/18A has inglenook fireplace, mortices in soffit of cross-beam indicating position of former partition wall between bays, arched braces from posts to tie-beams, and queen-post roof trusses. Cross-wing has old joists, jowled posts, arched braces, chamfered wall-plate, head of first floor window in left wall (at front) and large scantling curved wind braces in roof. The bay to its right on first floor has brattished decoration to front wall plate and to hollow-moulded beam near rear wall.
Listing NGR: SU9685243914
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 291339
- 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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