Old Post House

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SU 9643 NE 12/140

GODALMING HIGH STREET (north side) Nos 128 and 130 , Old Post House

(formerly listed Nos 126, 128 and 130 (Post Office), previously listed as No 48)

18.12.47

GV II Former house, later Post Office, refurbished and converted to offices in 2017. Late C18 or early C19 with C19 and early C20 additions; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, rear stuccoed; plain tile roof. Three storeys with basement; five bays with addition to rear right. Symmetrical elevation having chamfered plinth with the heads of bricked-up basement windows; and first and second floor bands. Two steps up to six-panel door below fanlight with petalled glazing bars in panelled reveal; wooden architrave has pilasters with leafy capitals and console-bracketed hood. Windows, in reveals, have flat brick arches and projecting stone sills: on ground floor C20 sashes; on first floor sixteen-pane sashes, bay four window missing some glazing bars; on second floor unequally-hung twelve-pane sashes to bays three and five, other bays with painted, dummy windows (of twelve panes). Parapet with flat coping conceals hipped, two-span roof with end stacks. On right, added early C20 porch with door in right return. Right return: three bays as front, but with porch to left bay on ground floor and central first floor window a dummy window; only left bay has a second floor, with a painted window; dormer to right bay.

Rear: on right, main range has stucco scored ashlar; a ground-floor bow window with three curved 16-pane sashes, entablature and modillion cornice; and on first floor a 12-pane sash. On left is added range of two wide bays with curved right-hand corner the right bay set back and having attached columned arcade broken at corner by later door and brickwork; curved tripartite sash to first floor; and dentilled and modillioned eaves cornices.

Listing NGR: SU9681643779