78-84, BRIGHTON ROAD

A terrace of four houses located on Brighton Road in Godalming, dated 1883 and designed for Ellis Duncombe Gosling of Busbridge Hall, with alterations made in the late 20th century. The construction features bargate rubble stone on the ground floor, and timber framing with plastered panels above. The roof is covered with plain tiles.

The building is 1½ storeys high with seven irregular bays. The symmetrical facade includes a jettied first floor, with bays two and six projecting further and gabled. A gabled dormer is centrally placed, while bays three and five have hipped dormers. The outer bays are recessed, each containing a board door with three glazed panes within a pent-roofed porch (found at numbers 78 and 84). Similar paired doors are found in internal porches at the centre (numbers 80 and 82). Four projecting, four-light wooden mullion and transomed windows with cornices are present on the ground floor. The first floor features similar corbelled bay windows with hipped roofs on bays two and six, which also have small leaded windows in the gables above. Smaller two-light windows are found in bays three to five, paired centrally (those at number 80 now have late 20th-century pivoting windows) and with date, initials, and scroll and floral plaster decoration below. There is decorative framing to the gables and cusped bargeboards with pendant ball finials. Large, multiple-flue cross-ridge stacks of brick with stone bases are located in bays three and five.

At the rear, a verandah is supported by wooden posts, and there are half-hipped attic dormers with two-light casements. Gable returns feature small two-light windows under bracketed, tiled roofs.