Tilehurst is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

Tilehurst

WRENN ID
vast-rafter-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hertsmere
Constituency
Watford MP: Matt Turmaine (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 August 1985
Type
House
Address
Tilehurst, 10, Grange Road, WD23 2LE
OS grid reference
TQ 124 956
Coordinates
51.64814, -0.37608
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a house located at No. 10 Bushey Grange Road, known as Tilehurst, built between 1903 and 1904. It was designed by C.F.A. Voysey for Miss E. Somers and constructed by Miskins. The house features roughcast brick with stone dressings and has a machine-tiled roof, showcasing a simple Arts and Crafts style.

The building is two storeys with an attic and has a steeply pitched gable facing the road, with a catslide roof over an entrance lean-to on the left. The entrance includes a part-glazed door set in a round-arched head with a tile drip mould. The ground floor has an asymmetrical arrangement of windows in a 1:4:1 pattern, while the first floor has a 1:4 arrangement. Both floors feature horizontal rows of multi-paned wrought iron casements with stone surrounds and mullions, along with continuous tile drip moulds. There are smaller tile courses above ventilation slits in the attic, and battered buttresses at the corners.

On the right side of the house, the entrance is sheltered by a large projecting hood supported by curved braces. Towards the rear, there is a 5-light casement similar to the front, along with a 2-light flat-topped dormer. The left return has a 3-light casement and a dormer behind the entrance lean-to. At the rear, there are 3 and 4-light windows on the ground floor and a 4-light window on the first floor, all featuring continuous tile drip moulds. A single large axial ridge stack is located just in front of the center of the house, topped with a segmental tiled cap. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Tilehurst sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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