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in 1947. The museum remained on the first floor until 1987, when it moved to a larger building on the south side of the High Street. The room on the first floor subsequently served as a meeting room, while the ground floor continued to provide space for a greengrocer's stall twice a week.
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The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto the High Street. It was arcaded on the ground floor, so that markets could be held, with an assembly room on the first floor. The end elevations were
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Meanwhile, at the Pepperpot, a new cantilevered stair tower was added in the 1890s, and the room on the first floor was used to accommodate the Godalming Museum from 1921. The building was
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in June 1761. After the old market hall become dilapidated, the borough officials decided to commission a new building. The current building was designed by John Perry in the
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The warden and other officials of the borough, who had met in the room on the first floor, were replaced by elected officials in accordance with the
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although, at the rear, the windows were blind. At roof level there was a two-stage clock tower with clock faces in the first stage and a
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for the second stage. The clock was manufactured by Richard Steadman.
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finish at a cost of £865 and was completed in 1814.
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Godalming
51°11′08″N 0°36′56″W / 51.1855°N 0.6156°W / 51.1855; -0.6156
Neoclassical style
Listed Building
The Pepperpot is located in Surrey
Godalming
Surrey
listed building
borough
Elizabeth I
capture of Belle Île
neoclassical style
stucco
canted
octagonal
sash windows
cupola
Municipal Corporations Act 1835
Godalming Borough Hall
grade II listed
Nikolaus Pevsner
Gertrude Jekyll




Historic England
"The Pepperpot (1044496)"
National Heritage List for England

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