70 and 72, Octagon Road is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Almshouse.
70 and 72, Octagon Road
- WRENN ID
- dusted-roof-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Constituency
- Runnymede and Weybridge MP: Dr Ben Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Almshouse
- OS grid reference
- TQ 094 623
- Coordinates
- 51.34938, -0.4295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 70 and 72 on Octagon Road are a pair of almshouses built around 1912 by Sir Mervyn Macartney. They are constructed of red brick and feature a wide central projection with a coved cornice above plain tiled, swept, hipped roofs that are recessed over the wings. The building is single storey with four bays, with the two central bays containing casement windows. The outer two bays have round-headed entrance arches that conceal casement windows and boarded doors. Whiteley Village was established by William Whiteley for frugal elderly residents and was designed on an octagonal plan by Frank Atkinson, who employed prominent architects of the time.
Local climate
70 and 72, Octagon Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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