The White Horse Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Public house. 2 related planning applications.

The White Horse Public House

WRENN ID
long-sill-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Guildford
Constituency
Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 May 1985
Type
Public house
Address
The White Horse Public House, Middle Street, Shere, GU5 9HS
OS grid reference
TQ 072 477
Coordinates
51.21923, -0.46498
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White Horse Public House is a building that originally served as a house, dating from the late 15th century to early 16th century. It features a cross wing that is part of an old hall house, with a mid-16th century addition in the center and a late 16th century cross wing to the south, or left end. There are 19th and 20th century extensions at both ends. The structure is timber framed with exposed half timbering from the 19th century on the first floor, while the lower part and the extensions are made of whitewashed brick. The front of the extensions has imitation framing, and the gables are tile hung in fishscale patterns, all under plain tiled roofs that are hipped to the left.

The old cross wing, which has two bays, is now positioned to the right of the center. The building has a two-bay range in the center and another two-bay cross wing at the left end. Additional projecting extensions create a half H-shape plan with a courtyard at the front. The building is two storeys high, with the projecting extensions being single storey. There is a square front stack on the left, a valley stack on the right, and end stacks on both sides. The first floor features one four-light leaded casement window in the center and a three-light window in the gable to the right. On the ground floor, there are two "cross" windows to the left and right of the center. A door is located to the right of the center, sheltered by a hipped roof brick porch. Additionally, there is a leaded casement window on the first floor of the right-hand wing, and a half-glazed door below it, accompanied by a three-light window at the end of the left-hand extension.

Inside, the old cross wing on the right has a crown post roof, and there is a significant amount of framing exposed in the ground floor rooms, although much of it has been restored.

Local climate

The White Horse Public House 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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