32 and 34, Octagon Road is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Almshouse.
32 and 34, Octagon Road
- WRENN ID
- roaming-grate-ebony
- 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 095 625
- Coordinates
- 51.35122, -0.42768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 32 and 34 on Octagon Road are a pair of almshouses built around 1912 by architect Ernest Newton. The buildings are constructed of red brick, with grey banding between the paired central entrances and recessed brick quoins. They feature a moulded wooden cornice beneath a hipped tiled roof, which has tall end stacks. The structure is single-storey, with paired central entrance bays flanked by casement windows in the outer bays. Whiteley Village was established by William Whiteley of Whiteley's stores to provide affordable housing for elderly residents, and it was designed by Frank Atkinson on an octagonal plan, incorporating prominent architects of the time.
Local climate
32 and 34, Octagon Road 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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