Vine Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Cottages, hall house. 9 related planning applications.

Vine Cottages

WRENN ID
dusk-bracket-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Guildford
Constituency
Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 May 1985
Type
Cottages, hall house
Address
Vine Cottages, 1-4, Upper Street, Shere, GU5 9HE
OS grid reference
TQ 073 479
Coordinates
51.22054, -0.46435
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A former hall house, now divided into cottages, dating from the early 16th century to the centre and right, with an addition to the left built in the mid 16th century and restored in the 20th century. The building is timber-framed, with the frame exposed on the ground floor to the right. The rest of the building has flint infilling, brown brick and red brick cladding, and sandstone rubble walls with brick dressings. All are under a renewed plain tiled roof, which is hipped to the left and hipped with a gablet to the rear right.

The original hall house has three bays in the centre, with a three-bay cross wing to the right and a two-bay cross wing to the left. The left-hand wing projects, and the right-hand wing is jettied on the first floor. There is an inserted brick stack in the centre, and rebuilt stacks at each end. The eaves are deep. There are four casement windows on the first floor and four below, with leaded lights under shallow ogee arches to the right of centre. Gauged brick heads are above the ground floor window to the left, while the right-hand windows have rendered heads. Planked doors are located to the left of centre and to the left on the cross wing.

The return front on the left-hand side shows exposed timber framing.

Internally, the centre and right-hand cross wing have crown post roofs. Evidence suggests a possible detached kitchen with a crown post roof lay to the rear left.

Local climate

Vine Cottages 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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  • Sale history — 7 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 9 applications
  • 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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