Willow Cottage and Ash Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1967. Cottage.
Willow Cottage and Ash Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ancient-spandrel-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Willow Cottage and Ash Cottage, Lower Street, Shere
- OS grid reference
- TQ 072 478
- Coordinates
- 51.2196, -0.46567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Cottage and Ash Cottage are two former Wealden cottages that date from the late 15th century to early 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 19th centuries. The buildings are timber framed and covered in colourwashed roughcast, topped with a plain tiled roof that is hipped with a gablet on the left and a gable on the right. Originally, the structure featured an open hall with a single bay floored at each end, with a service bay on the left.
The cottages are two storeys high, with the first floor jettied on either side of the centre, supported by a moulded bressumer and brackets. There is an inserted 17th-century stack to the left of centre and additional stacks at both ends. The windows are leaded, with three on the first floor and a five-light window in the centre. On the ground floor, there are three windows of three, four, and four lights, with the largest window located on the right. The door to the left, which belongs to Willow Cottage, features "porthole" glazing, while the door on the right end is part of an extension under a flat roof.
Local climate
Willow Cottage and Ash Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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