Description

GODALMING HURTMORE ROAD
SU 9645 SW
(south side, off)
5/150 Brook Hall with archway
and School Sergeant's
Lodge
GV
II

Masters' common room, archway and lodge. 1915 with later C20 additions. For
Charterhouse School. Bargate rubblestone brought to course with ashlar
dressings; plain tile roof. 2 storeys. 8 bays, 5 right-hand bays forming
Brooke Hall with archway to their left and Sergeant's Lodge above archway and in
2 left-hand bays. In Elizabethan style, having roll-moulded ashlar plinth;
quoins; string below roll-moulded, embattled, ashlar parapet; 2-light mullioned
and transomed windows with cusped-headed lights, quoined surrounds, diamond
leading to lodge and diamond-patterned glazing bars to Brooke Hall. Brooke Hall
has 2-storey porch to its 2nd bay having panelled board door with decorative
hinges in pointed-arched surround, moulded string and broached canted bay window
with central 3-light window. Tall double-transomed stair window on left of
porch. Archway bay of ashlar with full height offset buttresses; hollow-moulded
3-centred arch with blind quatrefoils and cusped panels to head, and cornice
with head and foliage stops; 1st-floor 4-light oriel, having 3 panels either
side, those in centre glazed, set on band of ogee-headed panels with heraldic
shields. On left is a pedestrian archway with a one-light window to left.
Raised verges with roll-moulded coping. Ashlar stacks, one at left end with
offset and cornice, and two rising from rear, that near archway a single
octagonal flue. Later C20 addition on left of one storey with attic, 2 bays,
having garage door, 2-light window and dormer. Rear: 2 storey canted bay
windows either side of archway which has a 3-light window above it; one light
window over pedestrian archway; external stack to Brooke Hall; C20 additions
projecting on right and left are not of special interest. Interior: Brooke Hall
has closed string open-well stair with turned balusters up to richly decorated
lst-floor room which has: panelling; modillion cornice; segmental-arched vault
with plaster decoration; Tudor-arched fireplace with pulvinated mantlepiece,
richly decorated in Elizabethan style with fluted pilasters, round-arched panels
and console bracketed decorative frieze; archway into oriel has cusped panelled
ashlar soffit; two panelled doors at left end in architraves with fluted
pilasters, triglyphs, finials and strapwork over.

Listing NGR: SU9647445082

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26296560

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