Dial Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Dial Cottage
- WRENN ID
- empty-chamber-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dial Cottage, Middle Street, Shere, GU5 9HS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 072 476
- Coordinates
- 51.21831, -0.46579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dial Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on the west side of Middle Street in Shere. It is timber framed with whitewashed brick infilling on the right side, rubblestone infilling on the left, and red brick infilling to the rear wing. The roof is covered in plain tiles. A triple ridge stack, featuring a corbelled top, is positioned to the right of the centre of the building and is dated 1622. The cottage has three framed bays. The upper floor has three leaded casement windows, and the ground floor features four irregularly spaced windows. A pentice porch hood extends over the left-hand door and across to an adjacent window. A wing extends at a right angle to the rear.
Local climate
Dial Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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