Old Museum Block at Charterhouse School
OLD MUSEUM BLOCK AT CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL, HURTMORE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190406
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Old Museum Block at Charterhouse School
- Statutory Address:
- OLD MUSEUM BLOCK AT CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL, HURTMORE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190406
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Old Museum Block at Charterhouse School
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD MUSEUM BLOCK AT CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL, HURTMORE ROAD
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:
- OLD MUSEUM BLOCK AT CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL, HURTMORE ROAD
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 96429 45149
Details
GODALMING HURTMORE ROAD SU 9645 SW (south side, off) 5/151 Old Museum Block at Charterhouse School GV II Former museum, carpentry workshop, lecture theatre and classrooms; now classrooms and lecture theatre. Dated 1890 altered. Bargate rubblestone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. 1 and 2 storeys. At west end, 2 parallel ranges, gable-end on (former museum), fronted by single-storey 8-bay arcade with a 1- storey, 2-bay block at either end; to rear (east) of this is slightly taller theatre. In modified Gothic style having plinths; quoins; offset buttresses; 2- centred-arched, quoined openings; roll-mounted strings; raised verges with coping and multifaced finials. West front: arcade has gabled buttresses and parapet broken by 2 recessed panels with mottoes and gableted, roll-moulded coping; inside arcade a board door or small-paned window to each bay. Rising above arcade the paired gables of the parallel ranges each have a large, transomed, 4-light window with triangular-headed lights and leaded glazing; between gables is gableted plaque with coat of arms and date. The single-storey blocks at each end of arcade have square-headed, 3-light windows. Rear: lecture theatre has one gable with polygonal corner stair towers with board doors; ground floor masked by pent-roofed infill addition; on 1st floor, windows of 3 lights flanked by 2 lights. Returns: former museum has full-length dormer windows with continuous small-paned glazing lights with round-arched tops. Lecture theatre on north side has three 3-light windows to 1st floor. Attached buildings to south not of special interest. M Seaborne, and R Lowe, The English School, Its Architecture and Organisation, Vol II, 1870-1970 (1977).
Listing NGR: SU9642945149
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 291427
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Seaborne, M, Lowe, R, The English School: Its Architecture and Organisation 1870-1970, (1977)
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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