Key House is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1972. House, offices. 2 related planning applications.
Key House
- WRENN ID
- leaning-latch-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1972
- Type
- House, offices
- Address
- Key House, 32, London Road, GU1 2AB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 002 498
- Coordinates
- 51.23873, -0.56471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Key House is a house that has been converted into offices, built around 1830, with a 20th-century extension on the left. The original structure is made of yellow stock brick and features a hipped slate roof, while the extension is also constructed of yellow brick with a matching slate roof. The building is two storeys high with attics and includes a basement in the left half of the original range, which projects forward to create an L-shaped plan.
The original house consists of three bays and has end stacks. On the first floor, there are three six-pane, glazing-bar sash windows, and below them are two similar windows, all set under gauged-brick, cambered heads. The central entrance features a door with six fielded panels, framed by an architrave surround and topped with margin lights in the overlight. A Doric porch with two front columns and two rear pilasters enhances the entrance, adorned with a fluted frieze and oval foliate panels at the ends and center above. Additionally, there is one basement window on the left side and two windows on each floor of the extension.
Local climate
Key House 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- 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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