Dressmakers' Den Godalming Museum

GODALMING HIGH STREET SU 9643 NE (south side) 12/118 Nos 107 and 109 (Dressmakers' Den) and 18.12.47 109A (Godalming Museum) (formerly listed as No 68) GV II

2 houses now shop and museum Of 2 builds, probably early C15 and later C15 or early C16; altered; refronted early-mid C18; altered C20. Timber frame with plastered wattle and daub infill; refronted and mostly clad in painted brick in Flemish bond. Concealed plain tile roof. Earliest building of 2 storeys, 1 x 2 bays (possibly truncated at rear), set gable-end to road; built adjoining this on the right is a 2-storey, 3-bay Wealden house with central open hall and jettied end bays, the right-hand bay now incorporated in no 111 (q.v.); the whole building refronted C18, presenting facade of 2½ storeys, 5 bays. High Street elevation: early C20 shop front has 2 recessed shop doors each glazed above a fielded panel the recesses with tessellated pavements and moulded plaster ceilings; later C20 door on right (to 109A); plate-glass shop windows on glazed brown-brick plinths; flanking fluted pilasters and console brackets; corniced fascia with shaped pediment to centre. 1st floor: wooden cross-windows with old leaded glazing and iron casements under flat brick arches. 2nd floor: platband; shorter, blind windows. Roof hipped on right and with ridge stack to right. Left return: left bay has timber-framing on 1st floor with tall panels and an old 3-light diamond-leaded casement window. C20 wing added to rear left and rear addition not of special interest. Interior: on 1st floor timber- framing is exposed. The left-hand building has short arch braces to central cambered tie-beam which has traces of old painting and supports crown post with broad braces to collar purlin; rear bay has collared rafters. The former Wealden house has timber-framed partition walls separating end and central bays and crown-post trusses, the posts arch-braced to tie-beams and straight braced to collar purlin (post and tie beam of left truss removed).

Listing NGR: SU9686243797