Godophin House The Scotch Tea Rooms Including Area Railings

TL 6463 7/73 10.3.70

NEWMARKET (including EXNING) THE AVENUE No 2 (Godophin House) & The Scotch Tea Rooms incluiding area railings. (Formerly listed as No.2 (Godolphin House)

GV II

Offices, (formerly house) and tea rooms, (formerly kitchen wing), early C18. 2 storeys and attics on basement. 3 windows, with return elevation of 4 windows to the High Street. Red brick with parapets and cornice of brick and moulded limestone, the parapet raised at the centre and pierced by attic windows. Plaintiled roof with gabled dormers having sash windows, chimneys of red brick. Sash windows with flat arches of gauged brick and small- pane sashes with thick glazing bars. C20 entrance doorway in the C18 manner: pair of 2-panelled doors with oblong fanlight, pilasters with flat canopy of console brackets. A C18 tradesmens doorway to left with segmental arch of gauged brick and door with 6 fielded panels. Some rooms have good complete early C18 decoration on ground and 1st floors; chimney pieces, full height panelling, panelled doors and moulded ceiling cornices C18 wrought iron railings along the High Street frontage return to meet the corner of Godolphin House. The Scotch Tea Rooms probably the early C18 kitchen wing. 1 storey; rendered brick walls, hipped plaintiled roofs with axial chimneys of red brick. A pair of small 1-pane bow windows believed to have been added c.1935 with 6-panel reused entrance door. At the rear of the tearoom 3 early C18 mullioned and transomed windows with iron bars.

Listing NGR: TL6418563210