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Old Post House

A Grade II Listed Building in Godalming, Surrey

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.1851 / 51°11'6"N

Longitude: -0.6164 / 0°36'58"W

OS Eastings: 496799

OS Northings: 143788

OS Grid: SU967437

Mapcode National: GBR FD2.M08

Mapcode Global: VHFVT.8GJT

Plus Code: 9C3X59PM+3F

Entry Name: Old Post House

Listing Date: 18 December 1947

Last Amended: 1 February 1991

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1044498

English Heritage Legacy ID: 291419

ID on this website: 101044498

Location: Godalming, Waverley, Surrey, GU7

County: Surrey

District: Waverley

Civil Parish: Godalming

Built-Up Area: Godalming

Traditional County: Surrey

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Surrey

Church of England Parish: Godalming

Church of England Diocese: Guildford

Tagged with: Post office

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Description


This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 September 2022 to update the name and address, amend description due to change of use of building and to reformat the text to current standards

SU 9643 NE
12/140

GODALMING
HIGH STREET (north side)
Nos 128 and 130 , Old Post House

(formerly listed Nos 126, 128 and 130 (Post Office), previously listed as No 48)

18.12.47

GV
II
Former house, later Post Office, refurbished and converted to offices in 2017. Late C18 or early C19 with C19 and early C20 additions; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, rear stuccoed; plain tile roof. Three storeys with basement; five bays with addition to rear right. Symmetrical elevation having chamfered plinth with the heads of bricked-up basement windows; and first and second floor bands. Two steps up to six-panel door below fanlight with petalled glazing bars in panelled reveal; wooden architrave has pilasters with leafy capitals and console-bracketed hood. Windows, in reveals, have flat brick arches and projecting stone sills: on ground floor C20 sashes; on first floor sixteen-pane sashes, bay four window missing some glazing bars; on second floor unequally-hung twelve-pane sashes to bays three and five, other bays with painted, dummy windows (of twelve panes). Parapet with flat coping conceals hipped, two-span roof with end stacks. On right, added early C20 porch with door in right return. Right return: three bays as front, but with porch to left bay on ground floor and central first floor window a dummy window; only left bay has a second floor, with a painted window; dormer to right bay.

Rear: on right, main range has stucco scored ashlar; a ground-floor bow window with three curved 16-pane sashes, entablature and modillion cornice; and on first floor a 12-pane sash. On left is added range of two wide bays with curved right-hand corner the right bay set back and having attached columned arcade broken at corner by later door and brickwork; curved tripartite sash to first floor; and dentilled and modillioned eaves cornices.

Listing NGR: SU9681643779

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