St Christopher's Cottage

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

GODALMING BINSCOMBE LANE SU 94 NE (south side, off) 1/11 17.7.90 St Christopher's Cottage - II

House. Second C16 with C17, C18 and C20 alterations, including C18 cladding.

Timber frame with wattle and daub infill clad in galleted Bargate rubblestone with red brick dressings. Plain tile roof. 3-bay house with smoke-bay to centre bay, left bay partitioned off on both floors; fireplace inserted and out- shut added to rear right C17; outshut extended and the building clad, C18.

Garden front: 2 storeys, two 1st-floor windows. Old brick quoins; later brick surrounds to openings. Late C20 diamond-leaded door and windows. Door between right-hand bays has small square light to right and windows of 2 and 3 lights to left ; two 3-light windows to 1st floor. Former ridge stack in line with door removed; stack at right end. Rear: outshut of rubblestone on left (the earliest part) with buttresses, two 2-light windows and catslide roof; on right of brick, heightened late C20 with tile-hung walls; right bay (rear of main range) of painted brick in Flemish bond with rubblestone plinth and small ground-floor window. Right return: wall posts and tie-beam exposed; small, bricked-up, 3-light window with brick surround on left, and another tiny blocked opening on right; late C20 porch added on right, not of special interest. Left return: a 2-light window to left on each floor; line of former flue on right. Interior: exposed framing in former rear wall and in partition wall between left-hand bays on both floors; central bay has brick inglenook with bread oven; large scantling chamfered cross-beam and square section joists to left-hand and central bays.

Truss between left-hand bays has cambered tie-beam with queen posts, collar, through purlins and wattle and daub infill; wattle and daub partition at stack (in central bay).

Listing NGR: SU9688946184

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1576 IOE Records taken by Ray Pettit; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Ray Pettit. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project