Netley House is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. House, offices. 1 related planning application.
Netley House
- WRENN ID
- long-bronze-swift
- 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, offices
- Address
- Netley House, Shere Road, GU5 9QA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 078 483
- Coordinates
- 51.22426, -0.45686
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Netley House is a building that has been converted into offices. The central section dates back to 1786 and was reconstructed after a fire in 1860, during which end angle bays were added. These bays were transformed into two-storey wings in the 1890s. The building features a red brick central range, with stucco cladding and incised detailing under hipped plain tile roofs.
The structure is three storeys high in the central block, with two-storey wings over a basement. The symmetrical five-bay central range has a shallow projecting central bay, with single bay wings and angle bays that extend through both floors. It has a modillion eaves cornice and plat bands above the basement, ground, and first floors. The central pediment and moulded cornice are above the side wings, which also feature smaller pediments. The windows throughout are plate glass sash, with five windows on the first and second floors that have shallow balconies. The central window on the first floor is a three-light window with architrave surrounds, a cornice hood, and a segmental pediment above the central light. There are four windows on the ground floor, each with scroll balconies.
At the front, there is a central portico with a flat roof, accessed by a flight of steps, and has D-shaped ends to the balustrade walls. The portico is in the Doric style, featuring square piers and four columns that support a frieze with guttae and triglyphs, along with an iron balcony above.
The rear of the building is made of red brick and includes a bowed bay at the center, with a blocked lunette in the pediment above and projecting side wings.
Inside, the building has been gutted, but the surviving staircase features twisted iron balusters in the hall, along with some fireplace surrounds. There is a possible historical association with the Cubitts. The building was undergoing restoration and conversion at the time of the last survey.
Local climate
Netley House 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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