Semaphore House is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Semaphore House
- WRENN ID
- moated-facade-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Constituency
- Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Semaphore House, Telegraph Lane, KT10 0DX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 157 647
- Coordinates
- 51.3698, -0.33797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Semaphore House is a building dating from around 1822, located in Claygate, Elmbridge. It features rendered brick construction on a projecting plinth and has a hipped slate roof. The structure includes a three-storey square tower at the center, a two-storey bay to the left, and a one-storey bay to the right, all built over basements. The windows throughout are 20th-century glazing bar sash windows. To the left of the tower, there is a projecting single-storey porch with a window, and a panelled door on the left side of the porch, which is accessed by a flight of six steps. At the time of the last survey, the house was undergoing restoration. Semaphore House is part of a series of semaphore towers that extend from Portsmouth to Whitehall, as noted in Pevsner's "Buildings of England, Surrey."
Local climate
Semaphore House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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