The Square Surgery

GODALMING HIGH STREET SU 9743 NW (south side) 13/104 The Square Surgery (formerly listed as "The 23.2.1970 Square") GV II

Hall and cross-wing, now surgery. C15 or early C16; early and later C17; altered C18 and C20. Timber frame with painted brick infill; painted brick in Flemish bond; rubblestone; tile-hung. Plain tile roofs. 2 storeys. 3-bay probably former open hall range with cross-wing on left and wing to rear left; a further parallel cross-wing on left. High Street elevation: Main cross-wing has brick ground floor with C20 bay window with leaded casements and hipped roof; timber frame above has posts, rails, braces from posts to tie-beam, and in gable two tiers of collars and queen posts. Hall, on right, has C18 frontage, altered C20, of painted brick below tile-hung 1st floor; 2-panel door under pent canopy between left-hand bays; casement windows on each floor of 2, 3, and 2 lights; parapet partly concealing roof which at right end is hipped with gablet, and at left end has hip of roof of taller rear wing rising above it; stack to rear of central bay with T-section flues. Further gabled cross-wing on left is tile-hung. Rear: ground floor mostly of rubblestone. External hall stack has brick quoins and rises in brick above offset. Tall-panelled timber frame visible on 1st floor to left of stack. Wing: timber-framed on 1st floor, the left return having 3 early C17 irregularly-framed bays with later C17 square- panelled bay at end. Range on right of wing mostly brick and mostly C20 not of special interest. Interior: hall and cross-wing have large-scantling joists laid flat; plank and muntin panelling (or walling) removed from between hall and cross-wing (indicated by mortices in soffit of cross-beam) but survives between left and central bays of hall; central bay of hall has stop-chamfered joists, moulded arrises to cross- and spine-beams, and inglenook fireplace with timber jambs and lintel. C20 stair with moulded handrail, reused turned balusters and reused balustrade to landing on 1st floor, hall framing has braces from posts to mid-rail.

Listing NGR: SU9718943836