Description

GODALMING STATION APPROACH
SU 9643 NE
(west side)
12/205
Godalming Railway Station
7.12.88
- II

Railway station. 1859. Possibly by Sir William Tite. For the London and south
Western Railway Company. Rubblestone brought to course with ashlar dressings;
Welsh slate roof. In Tudor Revival style. Single storey apart from former
Station Master's house of 2 storeys with attic. 7 bays comprising, from left:
1-bay parcel office; 2-bay former Station Master's house, left bay lean-to
against projecting gabled bay with attic; 2-bay booking hall; projecting, gabled
1-bay office; flat-roofed 1-bay toilet block. Additions at either end not of
special interest. Quoins; chamfered plinth; Tudor-arched board doors to house
and toilet block, otherwise stone-lintelled; quoined surrounds and hoodmoulds to
openings, windows with wood mullions and transoms, shouldered, quoined stacks
with brick tops. Forecourt elevation: booking hall has double door, the leafs
with Caernarvon-arched glazed upper panels; wide 4-light window to left; canopy
on decorative, corbelled iron brackets has cusped eaves board. Gabled bay to
right has 4-light bay window with parapet, blind spherical-triangular opening to
gable, and raised verge with moulded kneelers and ridged coping. Station
Master's house has door in porch to left of 3-light window, with same above,
2-light attic window 1-light window to first floor of left bay, and first floor
band; cusped barge boards. Parcel office to far left has 2-light window and
bricked-up door. Railway line elevation: similar, the platform canopy
supported as before but with iron columns at left end; gabled office has canted
bay window and Victorian wall letter box. Interior: booking hall has boarded
roof with V-strut trusses with iron king pins.

Listing NGR: SU9662343939

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Godalming railway station at Wikipedia
• Godalming railway station official website
• Wikidata Q3053175

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