The Vicarage

GODALMING BOROUGH ROAD SU 9643 NE (west side) 12/16 23.2.70 The Vicarage GV II

Vicarage. Early-mid C18 with earlier origins, C19 alterations and late C19- early C20 additions. Rendered front, tile-hanging, Bargate rubblestone with brick dressings, and brick. Plain tile roofs. 2 storeys with attic. 4 bays with wide cross-wing bay in line on left; additions to rear. 4-bay range: door of 6 raised and fielded panels in architrave with console-bracketed hood to bay 1; sash with glazing bars in reveal to bay 3; wooden cross-window to bay 4. On 1st floor 4 sashes with glazing bars and projecting wood sills. Two gabled dormers with cross-windows. Stack at right end. Wing on left has 2 sashes with glazing bars to ground floor; tile-hanging above with decorative bands of cusped tiles; cross-window under tile pentice to attic; stack to left side. Left return: early C18 or earlier, altered C19, of rubblestone with brick surrounds to various windows, having 12-pane and 16-pane sashes and one 4-light window with ovolo-moulded mullions to ground floor. Right return: two gabled ranges added parallel to main range, that on left C19, of rubblestone, canted-fronted, having 3-light windows flanked by 2-light windows, all transomed with segmental brick arches and on ground floor intersecting glazing bars; right range, of c1900, of brick and tile-hung with 2-storey canted bay window on left. Interior: principal feature is the fine early-mid C18 open-well stair with wave- moulded treads; open string; turned, knobbed, column-on-vase balusters; columnar newels; and moulded handrail with spiral curtail; panelled dado. Left wing: central room on both ground and 1st floors has fireplace with eared architrave, Greek key motif to frieze and cornice, the ground-floor room panelled. A Bott, A Guide to the Parish Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Godalming (1987), pp 39-41.

Listing NGR: SU9676343982