Description

GODALMING BINSCOMBE LANE SU 9645 NE (north-east side) 4/7 Nos 126 and 128 GV II

Hall house, now 2 dwellings. C15 or early C16, altered late C16, C17, C19 and C20. Timber frame with inserted brick infill, part painted, and addition of red brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roofs. 3-bay open-hall house having 2-bay hall and right-hand bay partitioned off and floored; smoke bay and floor inserted late C16; chimney built C17; addition at left end and house divided C19. 2 storeys, 4 bays (the left-hand bay being the addition). Timber frame exposed in bay 3, comprising wall posts arch-braced to wall plate, mid rail and central lst-floor stud. Bay 2 has wallpost on left, late C20 door with 2-light leaded casement on right and 2-light window above rising through eaves under hipped roof. Bay 3 has C20 half-glazed door (to no.126) to right and 2-light leaded casement, both under segmental brick arches, with similar window above rising through eaves under hipped roof. Added bay 1 has rubblestone plinth, a 2-light window on each floor and cogged eaves. Roof hipped on right with gablet. Large stack of 2 builds, in front roof pitch between bays 3 and 4; end stack to left. Rear: timber frame exposed in two left-hand bays comprising large rectangular panels and wall posts arch-braced to wall plate; one small leaded light to 1st floor, right. Interior of no.128: exposed timber frame, spine-beam of inserted floor has lambs-tongue-stopped chamfer and stops approxi- mately 3 metres short of partition wall between nos.128 and 126, indicating position of former smoke bay; cross-beam at rear has mortices in soffit from former partition; roof has two crown posts arch-braced to collar and to collar purlin, posts octagonal in section with cornices below braces and lower down (the lower part of posts being square in section); coupled rafters with carpenters marks, halved at apex, with collars halved in, rafters sooted. Interior of no.126 not inspected, but recorded as having timber frame exposed including original partition wall between this bay and open hall, and base of crown post visible (DBRG report). Domestic Buildings Research Group, Report No 1422.

Listing NGR: SU9673745912

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