2 AND 4, OCTAGON ROAD (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Almshouse group. 2 related planning applications.
2 AND 4, OCTAGON ROAD (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- half-pinnacle-mint
- 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 group
- Address
- 2 AND 4, OCTAGON ROAD (See details for further address information), KT12 4EG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 094 626
- Coordinates
- 51.35213, -0.42936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 and 4 Octagon Road is a pair of almshouses built around 1912, possibly designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield. The building is constructed of red brick and features moulded brick pilaster quoins on the main block. It has a hipped pyramidal tiled roof with a hipped roof wing at the back. There is an end ridge stack on the wing and a tall stack with a projecting breast on the left-hand return front of the main block. The front elevation has two storeys, while the rear has one storey. The front consists of two bays with casement windows and a segment-headed entrance arch to the right on the ground floor. On the left-hand return front, there is a single casement on either side of the chimney breast on both floors, with an entrance arch to No. 2 Octagon Road to the left. The wing facing Octagon Road has a central casement, flanked on the right by an oculus and on the left by an entrance arch to No. 4. Whiteley Village was established by William Whiteley of Whiteley's stores for thrifty elderly people and was designed on an octagonal plan by Frank Atkinson, utilizing prominent architects of the time.
Local climate
2 AND 4, OCTAGON ROAD (See details for further address information) 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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