North Cottage Whites Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1967. House. 4 related planning applications.
North Cottage Whites Farm House
- WRENN ID
- distant-solder-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- North Cottage Whites Farm House, Fairlands Road, Worplesdon, GU3 3HY
- OS grid reference
- SU 966 522
- Coordinates
- 51.26121, -0.61621
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Cottage at Whites Farm House is a Grade II listed building that has been divided into two residences. The house dates from the mid-16th century at the rear left, with a refronting and additions from the 17th century, and it was extended to the rear in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is exposed on the left-hand return front, with brick infill and brick cladding that includes some blue headers on the front. The roofs are plain tiled.
The building has an L-shaped plan, with the entrance front facing Whites Farm at right angles to the street. It is two storeys high, with four framed bays on the front and two framed bays on the rear wing. A large, central, corbelled stack is located on the front, with an additional stack at the rear. The facade is regular, featuring two 3-light cambered head casement windows on tiled cills on both floors. There is a central projecting gabled porch with a plat band over the ground floor and at the base of the gable, along with an arched entrance. A sundial and a casement window with "1670" picked out in flint work are located on the first floor of the gable. The entrance has an old oak door.
On the right-hand return front, the framing is visible. The left-hand return front, which is the street elevation, also shows visible framing and is partially tile hung. There is a 20th-century extension at the left end, and a glazed door leads to the left, which is North Cottage.
Local climate
North Cottage Whites Farm 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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 — 2 transactions since 2005
- 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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