Quarry Heights Undershaw is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1972. House.
Quarry Heights Undershaw
- WRENN ID
- iron-glass-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Quarry Heights Undershaw, 18, Warwicks Bench
- OS grid reference
- TQ 000 487
- Coordinates
- 51.2294, -0.56803
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Quarry Heights, also known as Undershaw, is a house dating from around 1910, designed by M. H. Baillie-Scott in a Tudor style. It is constructed of brown brick with plain tiled roofs and features a stone-flagged entrance court. The building has an L-shaped plan, with a long projecting wing to the left and a shorter gabled wing to the right. It is built into a hillside, with a single-storey entrance range that is approached from the street and two storeys at the rear.
The right short wing has a cluster of six chimney stacks at its ridge, while the rear left has four diagonal stacks with tile-on-edge coping. The left wing has deep eaves and a leaded half dormer. The entrance features a glazed 20th-century door flanked by small casement windows. To the right of the entrance, there is a lower casement window under a tile-on-edge lintel, where the ground drops away.
In the angle of the re-entrant to the left, there is a two-storey gabled bay with a 2-light leaded casement window on the first floor and a cambered-head single light window below. The central range has two plain 3-light windows to the pentice left of centre, and a leaded window in the gable end of the right wing above a square bay window on the ground floor.
A ribbed door with a 4-centre arched head is located in the right-hand angle re-entrant, featuring carved spandrels and approached along a cloister of three bays, with the central bay supported by round pillars. The rear of the building includes a timber frame with render infill on the left, a canted bay under a turret roof to the left, and a wood-framed canted bay in the centre. The gable to the right has a large 3-light window on the first floor above casement doors with decorative leading. The original interiors of the house are largely intact.
Local climate
Quarry Heights Undershaw 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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