22, Mint Street

This is an early 19th century house, originally with a framework knitters' workshop, with alterations made in the early to mid-19th century. It is built of painted brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a plain tile roof. The house is three storeys high and has a two-by-one bay arrangement; the original structure was a single two-storey cell, to which a three-storey cell was added to the rear. The front cell was subsequently raised to three storeys. A central 20th-century part-glazed door is flanked by an old 16-pane window with a top-hung casement, both within segmental-arched openings. A mid-20th century window is located on the first floor within a similar arched opening. The second floor has a wide window, partially boarded up on the right side, with three 20th-century small-pane lights. The roof is hipped, with a stack on the right side. The rear of the building features a wide window to the first and second floors, the former being segmental-arched; a similar window may have originally existed on the ground floor. Late 20th-century additions are not considered to be of particular interest. The right return has a tile-hung front cell, while the left return shows a blocked wide window opening to the second floor on the rear cell. Inside, reused timbers are present, along with a winder stair. On the second floor, the rear cell retains a single light from a former wide window in the front wall and has a separately roofed section with square-sectioned rafters bearing carpenters’ marks. The front cell’s roof was built up against this rear section, indicating that the front cell was heightened after the rear cell's addition. The substantial window space in the rear cell suggests its original use as a workshop for framework knitting, an important industry in Godalming where such workshops and homes could accommodate 12-16 looms.