Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1990. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Keepers Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Guildford
Constituency
Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1990
Type
Cottage
Address
Keepers Cottage, 265, Epsom Road, GU1 2RE
OS grid reference
TQ 027 507
Coordinates
51.24636, -0.52871
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Keepers Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage located on Epsom Road in Merrow. It is constructed of red brick with grey headers in a Flemish bond pattern, sitting on a brick plinth. The roof is made of old clay peg tiles and features a chimney stack on the left side and an external chimney stack at the rear. The building is L-shaped and has two storeys.

The front facade includes two windows, with a central window that has been blocked. The windows have rubbed brick arches and 20th-century casements set in original quoins. There is a central door case with a wooden architrave, a four-panelled door, and a 20th-century gabled porch. The left side elevation features a curved tile-hung gable, a casement window, and a six-panelled door. The rear elevation has a gable adorned with curved tiles.

In front of the cottage, there is a red brick garden wall with stone coping, cast iron spear rails, and four brick piers topped with stone coping. Inside, notable features include an open fireplace, a central spine beam, and plank doors.

Local climate

Keepers 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
  • 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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