Rio Cottage Rio House is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.
Rio Cottage Rio House
- WRENN ID
- winding-fireplace-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rio Cottage Rio House, High Street, Ripley, GU23 6AE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 051 566
- Coordinates
- 51.29936, -0.49345
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rio House and Rio Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of colourwashed roughcast, with plain tiled roofs, the left-hand side being hipped. There is a ridge stack at the right end. The first floor has three 19th-century sash windows on the right, and one 19th-century casement window with a cambered head on the left. The ground floor features a 19th-century shop front on the left, with thin iron angle pillars. A glazed door adjoins a bowed, multi-paned window on the ground floor left. A square bay window is present on the ground floor right, alongside a half-glazed door located to the right of center.
Local climate
Rio Cottage Rio House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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