The Priory

GODALMING CHURCH STREET SU 9643 NE (west side) 12/61 No 33 (Nos 1 and 2 The Priory) 18.12.47 GV II

House, now 2 dwellings. Probably late C16 rear wing; mostly mid-late C18, with mid C19 additions. 2 storeys. 7 bays, 2:4:1, canted round corner, the 4 central bays C18 with C16 wing to rear right and C18 wing to rear centre; bays 1 and 2 a mid-C19 addition with rear wing; bay 7 a mid-C19 addition. Plinth; sashes with glazing bars in reveals with gauged flat brick arches and project- ing sills. 6-panel door to bay 3 in panelled reveal with pilastered architrave having acanthus leaf capitals, frieze with end paterae and cornice; similar door to bay 7, on left, the architrave roll-moulded and corniced. Bay 4 windows tripartite, the first floor window Venetian, having 4-pane sashes flanking central sash with glazing bars. Shutters to windows on ground floor of bays 4-6. Windows to bays 1 and 2 blind. Parapet. Roof over bays 3-6 has mansard end on right; roof hipped at left end with stack; other stacks over bays 6 and 7. Rear: the C16 wing on left has tile-hung gable with one first floor window in reveal and brick inner (right-hand) return with a leaded-light casement window to each floor and another on ground floor replacing former door. Central C18 wing has canted end with a Venetian window on each floor having sash windows with glazing bars and architraves; stepped dentilled eaves; old chimney at junction with front range. To right of this wing is narrow bay with small-pane door in trellis porch below tile-hung first floor with sash with glazing bars in flush wood reveal. C19 wing on right has a tripartite window on each floor with 4-pane sashes flanking 12-pane sashes, that on ground floor larger and in trellised loggia with swept roof; stepped dentilled eaves; hipped roof with gablet and lateral stack on right. Right return: C16 wing, masked on ground floor by C20 additions (not of special interest), has square-panelled timber- framing to first floor (No 2, The Priory) and small 2-light window; it is joined to front range by C19 brick link bay which has round-arched first floor window. Interior: No 1 The Priory has Imperial stair with stick balusters, moulded handrails with spiral curtails, and wave-moulded treads; ground-floor rooms on right have mid-late C18-style fireplace surrounds with acanthus leaf, festoon and vase ornamentation. The C16 wing was at one time a pub, The Swan Inn.

Listing NGR: SU9683843836