Merrow House is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Merrow House
- WRENN ID
- steep-finial-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Merrow House, Merrow Street, GU4 7AD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 027 508
- Coordinates
- 51.24738, -0.52925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merrow House is a house built around 1802, with later alterations from the 19th century, including rear extensions from around 1870 and early 20th-century additions to the right. The building is constructed of red brick and features hipped roofs that are obscured by stone-coped parapets. Originally designed with a square plan, it now has extensions on the right side. The house has three storeys and three bays on each side, with chimney stacks located to the left and right of the centre.
The windows are plate glass sash in earlier openings, with ribbed brick heads on the first and second floors. There is a canted bay window on the ground floor to the right, featuring plate sash fenestration and panelled jambs. The central entrance has panelled doors beneath a transom light with reeded decoration. A Doric portico with two front columns and two rear pilasters, along with a triglyph frieze above, enhances the entrance.
On the left side, there are three sash windows on the first and second floors, and two windows on the ground floor, with doors in a panelled reveal and a similar porch. There is also a single-storey angle bay at the left corner with a panelled parapet. The right side features a one-bay, full-height extension set back, with another extension further back to the right.
Inside, early 19th-century shutters remain in the main rooms. There is a later 19th-century white marble fireplace in the ground-floor room at the rear and a black marble fireplace in the front sitting room. Some of the main rooms also have simple plaster cornices.
Local climate
Merrow House 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- 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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