Old Rickfords is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Old Rickfords
- WRENN ID
- silver-arch-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Rickfords, Worplesdon Road, GU3 3PJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 967 542
- Coordinates
- 51.27932, -0.6137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Rickfords is a house dating to the 17th century. It is timber-framed and largely clad in red brick, with a rendered gable end to the left, and has a plain tiled roof, hipped on the right. The house has a T-shaped plan with a gabled crosswing at the left end. It is two storeys high, with a square ridge stack to the left. A plat band runs above the ground floor. The first floor has two two-light, diamond-pane, leaded casement windows and one single-light window. There is one casement window to the first floor of the gabled bay. The gabled wing has two cambered-head ground floor casements, one window to the right, and a square bay window with a hipped roof to the centre right. A ribbed, part-glazed door is located at the right end, sheltered by a hipped roof timber porch.
Local climate
Old Rickfords 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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 — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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