George and Olwen's Country Store is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. House, shop.
George and Olwen's Country Store
- WRENN ID
- scarred-mullion-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- George and Olwen's Country Store, Middle Street, Shere
- OS grid reference
- TQ 073 478
- Coordinates
- 51.21991, -0.46475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
George and Olwen's Country Store is a house that has been converted into a shop, built in 1892 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for the Bray estate. The building features red brick at the lower level with colourwashed roughcast above and has a plain tiled roof. It is a single storey with an attic, which includes a gabled, tile-hung four-light leaded casement dormer on the right side. There is a large multiple stack on the ridge, positioned to the right of the center, topped with a corbelled design. The first floor juts out over a rounded bressumer that has a dentill-type pattern, supported by a braced post at the right end. To the left end, there is a projecting square bay window, while the right end features an angle bay window. The ground floor on the left is recessed and has six leaded windows, with a four-light leaded casement window to the right. There is a half-glazed door to the left of center in the angle of the bay, and another half-glazed door under a braced hood at the re-entrant angle with the wing. A further door is located to the right.
Local climate
George and Olwen's Country Store 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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