Description

GODALMING BINSCOMBE LANE SU 9645 NE (south-west side) 4/12 Nos 125 and 127 (Walnut Tree Cottage) GV II

House, now two. C17 added to and altered C18, C19 and C20. Timber frame with wattle and daub infill mostly replaced by painted brick infill; brick, mostly painted or rendered. Plain tile roofs. 2 storeys. 5 bays in all: bay 3 is the earliest bay, C17 or possibly earlier, timber-framed, with rear-wall chimney; bay 4 is a later C17 timber-framed addition; bay 2 is a late-C17 or early-C18 brick addition; bay 5, taller and of brick, added C19; bay 1, taller, set back, and of brick, added 1987-8. The timber-framing of bays 3 and 4 comprises wall-posts, mid- rails, wall-plate, tension braces, tall rectangular panels to bay 3, shorter square panels to bay 4. Doors and windows C20: board door to bay 4 (to no.127) with 1-light window to left; gabled porch to bay 1 (to no.125) with 1-light window to right; all other windows are C20 2-light, wood-framed, leaded casements, bay 3 having 2 on each floor. External stack at right end; external stack to rear of bay 3. Rear: rubble and brick plinth to bays 2 and 3; narrow orangey bricks, in stretcher bond on right, English bond on left. Interior: square-panelled cross- walls between 3 central bays; chamfered joists with lambs tongue stops in bay 2; bay 3 has similar joists and spine-beam ithe floor possibly inserted), fireplace with timber bressummer and bread oven in side; and on 1st floor a reverse curved brace in rear wall; former end walls between bays 1 and 2, and 4 and 5 have 3 posts on tie-beam; queen-strut roof trusses with through purlins and old rafters over no.125.

Listing NGR: SU9671845882

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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