Oak Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. Cottages. 2 related planning applications.
Oak Cottages
- WRENN ID
- ancient-bracket-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Oak Cottages, 1-4, Withies Lane, Compton, GU3 1JA
- OS grid reference
- SU 964 467
- Coordinates
- 51.21167, -0.62118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of four cottages, dating to circa 1895, likely designed by Sir Ernest George for Mary Watts, wife of the artist G F Watts, and intended for workers at her local pottery. The cottages are built in a vernacular revival style. They are roughcast with a hipped tiled roof, featuring two central brick chimneystacks with round-headed panels and two end chimneystacks built into lean-tos. The cottages are two storeys high with four windows. They have casement windows with leaded lights. The front elevation has a recessed central section with brackets reminiscent of a Wealden house. The two central windows are two-storey canted bays. Square, glazed wooden porches are set into the ground floor. The rear elevation features a first-floor jetty supported by brackets. G F Watts commissioned Ernest George to design their house, Limnerslease, also located in Compton.
Local climate
Oak Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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