58-64A, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information)

Nos 58, 58A, 60, 62, 64 and 64A High Street, Godalming (including 99 Great George Street)

A substantial building complex comprising the former Great George Inn with attached stables and outbuildings, now converted to shops and offices with one flat. The building dates from the mid-18th century and has been altered. It is listed at Grade II.

The main structure is of red Flemish bond brick with brighter-red brick dressings, supplemented by lower-quality brick that is partly rendered and tile-hung. The right wing is of painted Bargate rubblestone with brick dressings. All sections have plain tile roofs.

The building forms a U-plan layout. The main range is 3 storeys over 7 bays, with long 2-storey rear wings. The right wing has an attic to its front section.

The front elevation (south-facing) is dominated by four shop fronts, mostly mid to late 20th century in date, except that to No 64 which retains late 19th-century pilasters and corbels with cornices. The upper floors are articulated by giant pilasters, rusticated at angles, with modillion cornices on the first floor creating a bay division of 3:1:3. First-floor and second-floor bands run across. Sash windows with flat brick arches light the upper storeys: 12-pane examples to the first floor and unequally-hung 9-pane windows to the second floor, with windows to bay 2 being blind. The central bay is wider and contains a segmental-arched Venetian-style tripartite window to the first floor and a Diocletian window to the second floor, both retaining glazing bars. A parapet with stone coping crowns the composition. Stacks are concealed behind the parapet, with examples positioned to bay 2, right of centre, and to the right end.

The rear elevation (north-facing) of the main range repeats the first-floor and two second-floor windows. The right wing (No 64A) has a rendered front section with various 20th-century doors and windows and two truncated external stacks to the west. The rear section, probably originally stables, is shorter with a cogged eaves detail and M-shaped roof.

The Great George Street elevation is of mixed construction periods with various doors and windows, mostly 20th-century insertions. However, one section near the left end retains three 19th-century 12-pane sashes in reveals, including one to the first floor within a former loading doorway. Below is a tripartite ground-floor window (a 12-pane sash flanked by 4-pane sashes) and above it a round-arched sash with glazing bars. A stepped eaves section further left contains a blocked doorway with a pilastered and pedimented architrave.

The interior of the main front range on the first floor includes ceiling cornices with moulded friezes to two right-hand rooms. The central principal room (now subdivided) retains good-quality contemporary decoration including sunken wall panels with egg and dart borders, an enriched modillion cornice, and rococo plasterwork to the ceiling. At the right end in No 58A, an original closed-string stair ascends to the second floor, featuring columns on vase balusters, columnar newels, and a moulded handrail.

The left-hand wing (No 64A) displays significant structural timber of interest. The front section on the first floor contains large-scantling chamfered beams with lamb's tongue and run-out stops, and a fireplace with basket grate. In the roof above are queen-strut trusses with a large square-sectioned ridge-piece. The rear section has principal rafter roof trusses with butt purlins. The roof over the right-hand wing along Great George Street is similarly detailed with queen-strut trusses and through purlins over the front section.