Old River Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1953. House. 15 related planning applications.

Old River Cottage

WRENN ID
muted-column-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Guildford
Constituency
Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 May 1953
Type
House
Address
Old River Cottage, 28a, Quarry Street, GU1 3XJ
OS grid reference
SU 997 490
Coordinates
51.23177, -0.5731
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old River Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with later alterations from the 16th and 17th centuries. It features a timber frame set on a whitewashed rendered plinth, with whitewashed brick infilling and a plain tiled roof that is half-hipped, including a gablet at the left end. The building has two storeys and an attic with a gabled dormer, tall proportions, and a stack located to the left of the centre. The upper frame is raised to the right of the stack and across the rear.

The cottage consists of three framed bays with irregular casement windows. There is one window on the first floor to the left, and two windows on the ground floor to the right. To the left, there are two additional windows flanking a ribbed door. The right-hand return front displays an exposed queen post roof truss and end joists of the attic floor, along with a single-storey brick extension from the 20th century at the end. At the rear, there is regular framing with a wide gabled porch at the centre.

Local climate

Old River Cottage 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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