St Catherine's Priory and Cottages Adjoining to North is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1953. House with cottages. 3 related planning applications.
St Catherine's Priory and Cottages Adjoining to North
- WRENN ID
- under-banister-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1953
- Type
- House with cottages
- Address
- St Catherine's Priory and Cottages Adjoining to North, GU2 4EE
- OS grid reference
- SU 992 483
- Coordinates
- 51.2255, -0.57942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St. Catherine's Priory is a house with adjoining cottages to the north. The priory dates from the 18th century, while the cottages are from the late 16th or early 17th century. The priory features whitewashed roughcast over brick with a hipped, plain tiled roof. It is two storeys high and has a stack at the rear left. On the first floor, there are two 2-light windows with Gothick arched heads, and the central window is leaded. To the left, there is a canted bay under a hip roof, and there are canted bay windows at both ends of the ground floor with sash windows. The central entrance is a door located in a gabled brick porch with a chamfered entrance arch.
The cottages to the north, which are late 16th century at the left end, are timber framed and clad in whitewashed brick at the front, with galleted sandstone at the rear. The roofs are plain tiled and step down to the left, featuring tile-hung gable ends and dormers. There is a stack at the front left of the end cottage and another stack at the junction of the two ranges. The first floor has three windows, with two on the left-hand cottage and one on the right, all positioned under eaves gables. The ground floor has three windows, with the rightmost window having a cambered head. There is a door under a transom light at the junction of the cottages, as well as another door in the wing to the rear.
Local climate
St Catherine's Priory and Cottages Adjoining to North receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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