Oak Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 7 related planning applications.
Oak Cottages
- WRENN ID
- kindled-bastion-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oak Cottages, 5 and 6, Withies Lane, Compton, GU3 1JA
- OS grid reference
- SU 964 467
- Coordinates
- 51.21141, -0.62088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of semi-detached cottages, dating to around 1895. They were commissioned by Mary Watts as residences for managers at her nearby pottery. The cottages are believed to have been designed by the architect Clough Williams Ellis. The architectural style is Vernacular Revival. The ground floor is constructed of brick, while the upper portion is roughcast with close-studding in the centre. The roof is tiled, featuring clustered brick chimneystacks. The cottages are two storeys high with attics, and have five windows. They include projecting gables to the front and one to the rear. The attic windows are small casements with leaded glass. The first floor features three-light leaded casement windows in the centre and at the ends, and two two-light casements in the penultimate bays. The interior of number 6 retains original features, including the staircase, panelling, fireplaces, and floor tiles. The cottages group with numbers 1-4 Oak Cottages, which were likely designed by Sir Ernest George for pottery workers.
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 — 4 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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