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Church Cottage part one |
What is described as Church Cottage is today three separate cottages, Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Church Cottages. The listing as detailed by Woking Borough Council on their website is:House. C16. Timber Framed, encased in whitewashed incised render; plain tiled roofs; 2 gables fronting the street; rendered stack in roof valley, and ridge stack to right. 2 storeys quoined corners; 2 glazing bar sash windows in strap work surrounds across the first floor (one in each gable); ground floor windows with raised keystones. 4 panel door to left of centre under flat porch with tuscan piers on pedestals having detailed cornice above. C20 extensions to rear. Interior: Timber framing visible.
The listing is applied separately to each of the three cottages but seems mainly to describe No. 1, the apparent sole reference to Nos. 2 and 3 being C20 extensions to the rear and perhaps the chimneys. 1 Church Cottages, Church Street, Old Woking, Woking, Surrey, GU22 9JFTQ021569 LBII C16, C20 DBRG mid C15 AOS C19 or earlier WBC
A DBRG survey in 2006 found No.1 to be mid C15 with later alterations. The right hand gable was added after 1830 and the building is almost certainly a cross wing to a small hall house now long demolished.
The extract of the John Holmes map of 1709 (in the care of Surrey History Centre) shows Church Street in the early part of the 18th century. The church and the churchyard are easily distinguishable with the churchyard as it is today, a rectangular plot with an extension to where the 1936 lychgate now stands. Strangely Weylea is also shown even though it was referred to as newly built in 1749. Immediately outside the gate is a building which is probably the original hall house of which 1 Church Street was part. The next building must be the hall house now split into Wey and Lea Cottages. Being a pictorial representation on a map the perspective is somewhat out of line.
The house is probably that described in the Court Rolls 1547-53 as a cottage with garden called Synacles near the church. A will made in 1540 mentioned two houses at one end of the street with High Cross, which would have been in the Market Place, at the other end. The two houses are probably the long demolished hall house by the church, of which 1 Church Cottages was part, and the house next door now split into Wey and Lea Cottages. Although referred to as a cottage according to the will, the house had both a little parlour and a hall so it was very likely the missing hall house. |
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