Garden Walls To No 24 (Deanery House) With Attached Gazebo And Wall On South Side Of Churchyard

GODALMING CHURCH STREET SU 9643 NE (east side, off) 12/71 Garden walls to No 24 (Deanery House) with attached gazebo and wall on south side of Churchyard GV II

Garden walls with gazebo. Probably early C18 altered. Thin-coursed, galleted rubblestone with red brick dressings. Main garden is square on plan with 2nd, L-shaped, garden enfolding it on west and south sides; it has a gazebo at its north-east corner, and a wall continuing north from the gazebo to meet a cross wall which runs alongside the path linking Church Street and Great George Street. Wall approximately 3 metres high, in places ramping down to lower sections, with domed top, in some places replaced by late C19/C20 brick-on-edge coping or with tile coping. Brick pilaster strips in wall at changes in direction. Several round-arched entrances with quoined brick surrounds. Gazebo: west elevation: central round-arched entrance flanked by square openings with brick surrounds and stone inner surrounds with round-arched heads; heavily-moulded brick cornice; hipped roof. East elevation: wide elliptically- arched opening with imposts and keystone; cornice as west side. North side has blocked round-arched entrance. L-shaped garden in south wall has a canted- fronted late C19 or early C20 garden house with plain tile roof. Greenhouses attached to walls not of special interest. The gardens formerly belonged to No 30 (Church House, q.v.).

Listing NGR: SU9688043916