CHURCH HOUSE

CHURCH HOUSE, 30, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1189498
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1947
List Entry Name:: CHURCH HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CHURCH HOUSE, 30, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1189498
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1947
List Entry Name:: CHURCH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH HOUSE, 30, CHURCH STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: CHURCH HOUSE, 30, 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 96850 43971

Details

GODALMING CHURCH STREET SU 9643 NE (east side) 12/74 No 30 (Church House) 18.12.47 GV II

House, now office with flat. C16 and C17 of different builds, much restored and altered mid Cl9 and C20. Timber frame, mostly stuccoed; plain tile roofs. 2 storeys, part with attic. 3 bays with added cross-wing on left and further single-storey bay to left; 3 rear wings. Main range: near centre a C19 gabled, open-sided porch with elliptical archway and Welsh slate roof; inner doorway has moulded elliptical-arched surround, studded board door with pointed-arched panels and oval stone above bearing date 1086; on either side of doorway are two sashes with glazing bars in flush wood architraves, and to far right a leaded 3-light casement window. Jettied first floor has leaded casement windows of 3, 4 and 3 lights. Similar 2-light windows to gabled attic dormers which have decorative bargeboards and pendant finials. Cross-wing: 4-light, ovolo-moulded, stone-mullioned window with leaded lights; jettied first floor has two 8-pane sashes in reveals; decorative bargeboards and pendant finial to gable; right return has an 8-pane sash to ground floor. Further bay to left has 1-light ovolo-moulded stone window, and encases old chimney which has rebuilt, paired, diagonally-set flues. Left return: old chimney on right has rubblestone base with brick quoins; various windows. Right return: main range has truncated external stack and bargeboards as before; to right, castellated brick infill between main range and the base of an old chimney, of rubblestone with brick quoins, having tripled flues. Rear: on left, later C16 or C17 arch-braced timber-framed gabled wing, the right return jettied and with a 6-light wood- mullioned window. On right, a 2-storey, 2-bay early-mid C19 brick addition having pebble-dashed first floor, large late C19 canted bay window to ground floor, two 12-pane sashes to first floor, and hipped roof. Between the 2 wings is a shorter probably C16 gabled wing with a 4-light ovolo-moulded mullion window on first floor. Interior: exposed timber frame has large panels, jowled posts and arched braces. Large-scantling beams with stops of various kinds. Old panelled doors with old hinges in moulded architraves. Panelling to first floor rooms. Stone Tudor-arched fireplaces with decorative wooden surrounds, particularly elaborate in the cross-wing. A number of first floor windows have old wooden mullions, ovolo-moulded or cavetto-moulded (in rear right wing), also some old wooden stanchions, saddle bars, leading and glass. 3 old balustersto steps up to rear left wing (re-sited). Wooden winder stair up to attic which has lambs-tongue-stopped, chamfered, doorway between left-hand bays and front wall plate set in approximately 0.3 metres with mortices in soffit from former wall studding and window mullions, indicating that originally the first floor wall was. in line with the ground floor wall and not jettied as it is now. Queen-post roof trusses to rear right wing. Large scantling principal rafter roof truss and widely-spaced collared rafters over cross-wing.

Listing NGR: SU9684643974

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.