Tudor Cottage

SU 9745 SW 6/97

GODALMING FARNCOMBE STREET (north-east side) No 66 (Tudor Cottage)

II

House. 2nd ½ C15 - 1st ½ C16, altered. Timber-frame with painted wattle and daub infill; galleted rubblestone with brick dressings; some tile hanging. Plain tile roof. Gable end to road. 2-bay open hall, probably originally with a 3rd, floored, bay at front (south-west) end; floor inserted with stair tower added to left (north-west) side and external stack to right (south-east) side, C17; rubblestone outshuts built either side of stair tower, probably early C18; C20 single-storey addition projecting to right of stack. C20 diamond-leaded windows throughout. Road elevation: of rubblestone; 1½ storeys, 1 bay with partly tile-hung outshut on left under catslide roof; tile-hung band over ground-floor windows of 2 and 5 lights; windows of 2 lights to 1st floor on right, and 1 light to tile-hung gable; on right, large external stack, rendered, with tile offset and rebuilt brick top; on right of stack, addition has 2-light window. Rear: timber-framed, having jowled wall posts, mid-rail, wall plate, large arch brace on ground floor and arched tension braces to 1st floor; C20 external stack with small square window to right on ground floor, and 1-light window to each floor on left; roof hipped with gablet; outshut on right has 2-light window; entrance in C20 addition on left. Left return: gabled stair tower flanked by outshuts. Right return: timber framing exposed on 1st floor, to right. Interior: not inspected, but reported to have timber-framed wall between hall and outshut with curved braces and probable framing for hall window; 2 crown-post trusses, that at front end with down braces for a closed truss, that between bays chamfered, braced 4 ways and on cushioned base, with mitred-stopped chamfers to wall posts and arched braces up to tie beam (DBRG report). Domestic Buildings Research Group, Report No 1398.

Listing NGR: SU9727645091