Burchets is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Burchets
- WRENN ID
- silver-facade-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Burchets, Burchets Hollow, Shere, GU5 9RQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 087 452
- Coordinates
- 51.19609, -0.44483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burchets is a 17th-century house located in Shere, constructed from sandstone with brick dressings and galleting of ironstone at the eaves. The left side features exposed timber framing with brick and whitewashed render infill. It has a plain tiled roof with a tile-hung gable end. The building has an L-shaped plan with a projecting wing on the right and a corbelled end ridge stack also on the right. It is two storeys high, with two casement windows on the first floor to the right and two on the ground floor, one of which is located to the left under a 17th-century arched surround. There is an attic casement window on each floor below. The entrance is located at the re-entrant angle, featuring a part-glazed door in a hipped roofed porch.
Local climate
Burchets receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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