Godolphin House is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1950. House. 2 related planning applications.

Godolphin House

WRENN ID
buried-hall-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Windsor and Maidenhead
Constituency
Windsor MP: Jack Rankin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1950
Type
House
Address
Godolphin House, Common Lane, Eton, SL4 6DY
OS grid reference
SU 965 779
Coordinates
51.49242, -0.61053
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Godolphin House is an early 18th-century building, dated 1722 on the drainpipe head, and served as a boys' house for Eton College, being one of the first constructed for this purpose. The house is made of red and grey brick and features four storeys with attics, including seven double-hung sash windows set in surrounds with cambered relieving arches.

A late 18th-century porch, located on the left side of the front, has a one-window section and a fourth storey. This porch is designed in the Adam style and is enclosed, featuring a six-panel door with two flush panels and a decorative traceried fanlight above. It is flanked by three-quarter columns with narrow side windows and corner pilasters. The capitals of the columns and pilasters are uniquely adorned with acanthus leaves, rams' heads, and possibly buttercups. The porch also includes a frieze with paterae, a modillion cornice, and a pediment, topped with a parapet. The roof is a machine-tiled mansard style with dormers.

To the right, there is a modern two-storey, one-window addition. The garden front, built in the early 19th century, is made of yellow brick and features a canopied bow. Inside, the hall has half-columns similar to those on the porch. The fireplace in the west bedroom on the first floor has a white marble surround with carved pilasters featuring grotesques and a frieze with carving in basso rilievo.

Local climate

Godolphin House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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