Byways is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Byways
- WRENN ID
- bitter-plinth-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Constituency
- Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Byways, Watts Road, KT7 0BX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 160 669
- Coordinates
- 51.38937, -0.33304
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Byways is a cottage built around 1800. It features a stucco exterior on a rendered plinth and has a slate roof with stacks located to the left and rear right. The building is two storeys high and has a plat band above the ground floor. It consists of two bays, each with glazing bar sash windows set in architrave surrounds on cill brackets. To the right, there is a half-panelled door with a transom light, also in an architrave surround and topped with a flat hood. This cottage is included in the register for its group value with Rose Cottage.
Local climate
Byways 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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