Richardson's Hardware is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1985. A Late C15 House, shop.

Richardson's Hardware

WRENN ID
last-paling-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Guildford
Constituency
Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 November 1985
Type
House, shop
Address
Richardson's Hardware, High Street, Ripley
OS grid reference
TQ 052 567
Coordinates
51.3005, -0.49175
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Richardson's Hardware is a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates from the late 15th century and was refronted and extended in the 17th and 19th centuries. The building has a timber-framed core on the left, with brick in the center and right, all rendered and whitewashed. It features plain tiled roofs, with patterned tiles on the left pitch of the gable. The structure is two storeys high, with a gable at the left end and a smaller gable at the right, supported by corbelled eaves. There are stacks at the center of the rear and at the end.

The windows display mixed styles, including a horizontal sliding sash on the first floor left, a casement window in the center, and a 12-pane, 19th-century sash window on the right. There is an additional casement window on the first floor right. The ground floor features plate glass shop fronts on the left, center, and right, with a half-glazed door on the left end that is blocked, and another door on the left side of the right-hand gable.

Inside, there are ceiling frames and interior framing in the left-hand range. Evidence indicates that this part of the building was once the former cross wing of a hall house with two framed bays, which has since been rebuilt.

Local climate

Richardson's Hardware 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 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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