93 and 95 including showroom wing at rear, High Street

House, now office, and attached workshop range, now showroom at 93 and 95 High Street, Godalming.

This is a complex building comprising an early-to-mid 18th-century house with early 19th-century additions, substantially altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The structure is built in red brick laid in Flemish bond, with orange brick dressings to the front elevation and some blotched brick and grey headers to the workshop range. Parts of the building incorporate rubblestone and tile hanging. Plain tile roofs cover the structure.

The main house is three storeys with five bays on the High Street front. An early-to-mid 18th-century two-storey addition projects to the rear left, probably raised in the early 19th century. A workshop range extends to the rear right, comprising two storeys over a basement and approximately eight bays of different builds.

High Street Elevation

The High Street front features a late 20th-century shop front with multi-pane windows and wooden cornice. The first and second-floor windows are mid-19th-century sashes set in reveals, with the second-floor windows shorter than those below. Both storeys have flat brick arches and projecting sills. A moulded platband runs across the second floor. A wooden eaves cornice and boxed eaves finish the front, with the roof hipped on the left side.

Rear Elevation

The main rear range addition has its lower floor largely concealed. The first floor displays two sashes with glazing bars in flush wood architraves beneath flat brick arches. The second floor, constructed in darker brick, has a 16-pane sash in a similar architrave. The roof is hipped.

The long workshop range projects to the left. A late 20th-century addition conceals its basement. The ground floor has segmental-brick-arched casement and sash windows with small panes. The first floor contains two-light and three-light small-pane windows. A loading bay, now fitted with windows, is present, with later doors at the left end. A 20th-century dormer and a cross-ridge stack occupy the right end. The roof is hipped at the left end with further additions beyond.

Right Return

The wall of the front range is constructed in coursed rubblestone with brick quoins. Attached to it on the right is a two-bay brick addition. To the left of this addition is a former archway, now blocked with a later window inserted. To the right is a segmental-arched window with a later window above. Beyond this stands a former workshop range incorporating a section of rubblestone and two-light windows, segmental-arched on the first floor.

Interior

The former house interior contains significant timberwork. On the ground floor is a large-scantling chamfered spine beam, and in the left-hand bays joists laid flat with stepped stops. The first floor has a similar spine beam at the right end with lambs tongue stops. The left end of the first floor contains a compartmented ceiling with deep, hollow-moulded members and egg and dart mouldings. The second floor retains an old two-panel door and a chamfered rear wall plate with stepped stops.

The workshop range interior features large-scantling cross-beams and chamfered joists. Queen-post roof trusses with through purlins are present, their timbers bearing carpenters marks.

Historical Context

The workshop range served as a hosiery factory during the 19th century. The offices of Hampton Messenger May occupy the second floor of the adjoining properties at nos 99, 101 and 103, which are separately listed.