High House is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1967. House. 9 related planning applications.
High House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-terrace-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- High House, Church Lane, Shere, GU5 9HH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 075 478
- Coordinates
- 51.21953, -0.46129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High House is a house dating from around 1630, constructed of brick laid in English bond and now largely colourwashed, situated under a plain tiled roof. It features a lobby entry plan and stands two storeys tall, with a single-storey 20th-century extension on the left end. The building has tall proportions and includes a central panelled multiple ridge stack on a square plinth, which is decorated with string courses. There is a plat band above the ground floor and metal brackets supporting the deep eaves.
The front of the house is regular, with two outer three-light wood-framed windows with cambered heads on the first floor, and a central two-light window. The ground floor has two four-light windows at the ends. The entrance features a panelled door with the top two panels glazed, set beneath a 20th-century gabled "rustic" porch hood. There are casement doors on the left end.
The right-hand return front includes a gable-lit attic and a tile-hung gable, with a wing extending at right angles to the rear.
Local climate
High 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 — 9 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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