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HER 11814 - KINGS ARMS ROYAL HOTEL

Hotel and 2 shops. Mid 18th century with some earlier fabric, later 18th century, 19th century and 20th century alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond with vitreous headers; plain tile roof. 3 storeys; 11 bays, end bays projecting, central 5 bays under pediment. Plinth; platbands between floors; stepped brick cornice broken in centre below pediment; parapet with raised pilasters and stepped top broken by pediment. Windows have segmental brick arches with dropped keystones, projecting sills, and sashes with glazing bars, unequally-hung and of 9 panes on 2nd floor, all in reveals. Central entrance has recessed 8-panel door with panelled reveal in Tuscan porch with columns and rear pilasters and entablature with modillion cornice which supports wrought-iron balcony with scrolled central panels in front of French window above which rises tall round-arched window with glazing bars, keystone and imposts. Basket-arched carriage-way with imposts and keystone to bay 1; 20th century shop front to bays 8-11. Hotel sign hangs from iron bracket between bays 3 and 4. Two decorative rainwater heads dated 1753. Various stacks. Rear: 2-bay late-18th century block to rear of bays 2 and 3. 2-storey wing of 2 builds to rear of bays 6 and 7, 3 bays deep, the 2 bays nearest main range having large sashes with glazing bars under segmental soldier-brick arches flanking blocked ground-floor doorway; the end bay has similar sashes but un-arched, and mathematical tiling (giving impression of Flemish bond brickwork) to upper part of 1st floor of side; tile-hung end wall. Interior: ground floor has 19th century panelling, architraves, fireplaces and stair on 1st floor 17th century panelling to partition between rooms and rear corridor, also in left-hand room which has Tudor-arched stone fireplace with initials 'K', 'A' in spandrels; the steps up to this room have an 18th century-style columnar newel and the doors in to the front rooms are of 18th century-style, so it is probable that the 17th century panelling was reused in an 18th century refurbishment; front rooms have cornices; at right end on 1st floor are two large-panelled timber-framed cross-walls. 2nd floor: large-panelled partition wall between rooms and rear corridor which has keyed arch, keyed architrave to stair door and panelled jambs to former window in rear wall; the rooms have plain panelling and cornices. A coaching house existed on this site in the 17th century and in 1698 Peter the Great stayed here (Coombs, p16). D Coombs, The Godalming 400 (1978). Listing NGR: SU9713543839

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