The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1985. Cottage.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- salt-tallow-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Long Reach, Ockham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 073 555
- Coordinates
- 51.28926, -0.46178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with 20th-century extensions on the left side. It features a timber frame made of thin scantling with brick infilling on the right and brick on the ground floor to the left, with tile hanging above. The roof is hipped and covered with plain tiles. The building has two storeys and consists of two framed bays, with an end stack on the right and a ridge stack to the left of the center. There are three casement windows on both the first and ground floors, and a 20th-century door is located to the left of the center.
Local climate
The Old Cottage 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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