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Latitude: 51.4924 / 51°29'32"N
Longitude: -0.6105 / 0°36'37"W
OS Eastings: 496559
OS Northings: 177968
OS Grid: SU965779
Mapcode National: GBR F8D.8H9
Mapcode Global: VHFT8.CRL8
Plus Code: 9C3XF9RQ+XQ
Entry Name: Godolphin House
Listing Date: 11 April 1950
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1210946
English Heritage Legacy ID: 395510
ID on this website: 101210946
Location: Eton, Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL4
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Civil Parish: Eton
Built-Up Area: Eton
Traditional County: Buckinghamshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire
Church of England Parish: Eton
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: House
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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