Former British School
Former British School, Bridge Road, Godalming, GU7 3DU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381331
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Former British School
- Statutory Address:
- Former British School, Bridge Road, Godalming, GU7 3DU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381331
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Former British School
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former British School, Bridge Road, Godalming, GU7 3DU
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:
- Former British School, Bridge Road, Godalming, GU7 3DU
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:
- SU9741544230
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 February 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SU 94 SE
1338/3/10007
07-AUG-00
GODALMING
BRIDGE ROAD
Former British School
II
Former British School, now nursery. Mainly of 1872, replacing building of 1813, but small extensions of c1900 to rear sides and C20 rear extension. 1872 building is of Bargate stone rubble with Bath stone dressings and gabled slate roofs with fretted wooden bargeboards and cast iron cresting. Gothic style symmetrical building with central hall and wings of one or two classrooms on either side.
One storey: eight casement windows to front. The centre is recessed with two gables with fretted wooden bargeboards and tall twelve-light windows. The principal feature is a central projecting circular tower with chamfered base with buttresses, above an octagonal section with trefoil heads and pointed canopies, band of quatrefoils and clock face to top and delicate stone spire with cast iron finial. The central door has been blocked. On either side are projecting gabled wings with fretted wooden bargeboards, trefoil decorations to the gables and central ten-light casements flanked by four-pane lights.
Dedication stone at the base of each gable, one the corner stone of the 1813 building, the other of the 1872 building. Right elevation has half-hipped gable with fretted bargeboards and eight-light window but C20 door below. Four further four-light windows. Left side has similar half-hipped gable and window, now with C20 door, two four-light windows and early C20 brick and glazed square porch. To the rear of the side elevations are small c1900 extensions of red brick in stretcher bond with stone dressings tiled roofs and mullioned and transomed windows. Flat-roofed brick later C20 extension to rear.
Interior has C20 suspended ceilings so that the roof trusses are not visible. Original glazed screen survives to left wing.
[Janaway, J (1987) "Yesterday's Town: Godalming" pp63-64 Barracuda Books Ltd. Stock, P "By-Gone Schools of Godalming (1991) Godalming Museum.]
Listing NGR: SU9741544230
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481691
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stock, P, By-Gone Schools of Godalming, (1991)
Janaway, J, Yesterday's Town: Godalming, (1987), 63-64
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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