Forest Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1985. House. 6 related planning applications.
Forest Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sombre-terrace-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forest Farmhouse, Forest Road, East Horsley, KT24 5ER
- OS grid reference
- TQ 098 551
- Coordinates
- 51.28506, -0.42637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forest Farmhouse, dating from 1867, was built by the Lovelace Estate. The house is constructed from flint rubble, with some flint that has been carefully shaped, and has brick and terracotta detailing. It has slate roofs, some of which are hipped. The house consists of a two-storey main block to the left, with single-storey service buildings extending in a U-shape around a courtyard to the right. The front has substantial stacks with decorative corbelled tops.
On the street facade, a two-storey angle bay is located to the left. This bay features an elaborate brick and terracotta plaque band above the ground floor, with arcaded and machicolated eaves. There is one original window with a cambered head and metal casement on the first floor to the right, with one window below. The angle bay also has one first floor window on each face, and larger ground floor windows. A door is positioned in the angle between the angle bay and the gabled return front. One further ground floor window is found to the right, within a weatherboarded, pentice-roofed extension. Further weatherboarded and brick extensions are present to the right.
The building is one of a group of estate buildings constructed by Lord Lovelace, uncle to Lord Byron, in the parish of East Horsley.
Local climate
Forest Farmhouse 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 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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