GODOLPHIN HOUSE

GODOLPHIN HOUSE, COMMON LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210946
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: GODOLPHIN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GODOLPHIN HOUSE, COMMON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210946
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: GODOLPHIN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GODOLPHIN HOUSE, COMMON LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GODOLPHIN HOUSE, COMMON LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Eton
National Grid Reference:: SU 96559 77967

Details

COMMON LANE 1. 1090 (South West Side) Godolphin House SU 9677 NE 1/5 11.4.50.

II

2. Early C18. 1722 on drainpipe head. Boys' house of Eton College, one of the first to be built for this purpose. Red and grey brick. 4 storeys and attics, 7 double-hung sashes in surrounds with cambered relieving arches. Late C18 porch, left hand 1 window section of front and 4th storey. Porch: in the Adam manner, enclosed, 6-panel door with 2 panels flush, good traceried fanlight over, flanking three- quarter columns, narrow side windows, corner pilasters; unusual capitals of columns and pilasters with acanthus leaves, rams' heads and (?) buttercups; frieze with paterae, modillion cornice and pediment, parapet. Machine tiled mansard roof with dormers. Right hand 2-storey, 1-window modern addition. Early C19 yellow brick 2-storey garden front with canopied bow. Interior: hall has half-columns similar to porch; 1st floor west bedroom fireplace has white marble surround, carved pilasters with grotesques, frieze with carving in basso rilievo.

Listing NGR: SU9655877972

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Legacy System number:: 395510
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.