The Horse and Groom Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1953. Public house. 6 related planning applications.
The Horse and Groom Public House
- WRENN ID
- last-steel-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1953
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Horse and Groom Public House, Epsom Road, GU1 2RG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 028 506
- Coordinates
- 51.2461, -0.52787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Horse and Groom is a public house dated 1615, though it likely incorporates elements from the mid-17th century and was remodeled in the early 19th century. It features a timber frame with an exposed close-stud pattern and herringbone brick infilling on the left-hand return front. The remainder of the building is covered in whitewashed roughcast, with brick and flint stacks and a 20th-century plain tiled roof. The structure has two storeys and attics, with a triple-gabled front over cellars.
The right side has a corbelled end stack, while a smaller stack is on the left. A notable 17th-century triple stack with ribbed and diagonally placed shafts is located at the rear, right of center, topped with corbelled, star-shaped caps. Each gable features a three-light stone-mullioned attic casement window with diamond-pane leaded glass. On the first floor, there is a 10-light mullioned and transomed diamond-pane window on each outer gable, and a square bay window on the ground floor to the left under a hipped roof, with a 10-light window to the right.
The center of the building has a two-storey square bay break beneath a modillioned pediment, which includes a date roundel in the tympanum. Below this, there is a 10-light mullioned and transomed window on each floor. A half-glazed door is located to the left of center under a flat hood supported by brackets, and there is another door to the right in a half-glazed porch featuring an arched opening, diamond-pane leaded lights, and moulded bargeboards on the gable. A single-storey extension is present on the right.
Inside, the ground floor was originally divided into three rooms, with a large chamfered bridging joist at one end supported on moulded brackets. The original newel post, approximately 8 meters high, remains at the stair, and the roof features staggered butt purlins.
Local climate
The Horse and Groom Public 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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