Old Friars is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1967. Hall house. 2 related planning applications.
Old Friars
- WRENN ID
- sheer-buttress-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1967
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- Old Friars, 37, Old Portsmouth Road, Artington, GU3 1LN
- OS grid reference
- SU 993 479
- Coordinates
- 51.22248, -0.57844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Friars is a former hall house dating from the early 16th century, with alterations and extensions from the 17th century and further changes to the gables in the late 19th century. The building is timber-framed, featuring decorative half-circle framing on the gables with rendered infill, and whitewashed brick infill on the rest of the structure. It has a plain tiled roof and is positioned at right angles to the street. The house is two storeys high with four framed bays and a gable at the left end. There are two rebuilt diagonal ridge stacks located to the right of the center. The first floor has two diamond pane, leaded casement windows, with two more below. In the gabled bay, there is a three-light casement window on each floor. A large gabled brick and timber porch is situated to the right of the center, featuring arched, leaded windows on the sides and a flanking ribbed, arched, and studded door.
At the rear, the first floor is tile hung, and there is a gabled wing projecting to the left under a dormer. Inside, some framing is visible along with a crown post roof.
Local climate
Old Friars 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
- 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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