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SU 9643 NE
12/167

GODALMING
MILL LANE (north side)
No 1, The Fox and Finch

(Formerly listed as The Red Lion Public House, MILL LANE)

6.9.90

GV
II
Hotel and attached Oddfellows Hall, now pub. C17, C18 and C19 with late C20 alterations. Former Oddfellows Hall of Bargate rubblestone with red-brick dressings, rendered at front; Welsh slate roof.

Former hotel pebbledashed at front, rear wall timber-framed with painted brick infill, rear wings of brick in Flemish bond; plain tile roofs. Former hall on left, early-mid C19 of one tall storey, four bays; former hotel of four storeys, five bays (four first floor windows), to right. Former hall: plinth; entrance in bay two has stone steps to recessed C20 door with six-pane overlight; sashes with glazing bars in reveals with stone sills, the openings formerly taller; two heraldic shields between openings; boxed eaves; hipped roof. Right-hand range: C17 timber-framed structure of 2+2 bays of different builds with fifth bay added to right, and rear corridor addition probably late C18, rear wing addition and refronting early C19, and further wing added at rear mid C19. Road front; entrance in bay four has C20 door in C19 doorcase with pilasters and corniced entablature; wide C20 ground floor windows, small-paned, of three-, four- and five-lights; corniced plat band. On first floor two two-light C20 smell-paned casements to left; to right, two tripartite windows with twelve-pane sashes flanked by four-pane sashes and C20 sign-board between; to bay three, C20 pub sign in old architrave, console-bracketed, with Ionic pilasters on plinths and dentilled cornice to entablature. Dentilled boxed eaves with wrought-iron pub sign projecting from right corner. Roof hipped on left, with stack at right end. Rear of right-hand range: square-panelled timber-framed wall; on first floor a small two-pane casement to left and a 16-pane side-sliding sash to right; moulded dentilled eaves; three hipped gables. On left, short wing projects having basket-arched doorway on left, large tripartite window on right (with twelve-pane sash flanked by four-pane sashes) and on first floor two sashes with exposed boxes, of sixteen and twelve panes. This wing links main range to parallel service range, of two wide bays, with inserted door and window to left bay, a wide window and door with header-brick arches to right bay, two two-light small-pane casements to first floor, and hipped roof with eaves stack between bays.

Interior: right-hand range has cross-beam between bays four and five with mortices insoffit from former end wall; another cross-beam between bays two and three and one between bays one and two, chamfered and with lambs tongue stops. Closed-string stair up to attic with stick balusters and columnar newel. Roof has collared principal rafter trusses with butt purlins, staggered to bays one and two, and old rafters; former chimney, between bays two and three, at rear, is truncated.

Listing NGR: SU9681843816

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)