The Old Prison 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.
The Old Prison
- WRENN ID
- silent-courtyard-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Prison, Lower Street, Shere, GU5 9HX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 071 478
- Coordinates
- 51.21958, -0.4666
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Prison is a house dating from the late 16th century that was restored in the mid-20th century. It features a timber frame that is under-built in flint rubble with brick quoins. The frame is exposed above, with flint and sandstone rubble infilling and plain tiled roofs. The building has a T-shaped plan with a gable end facing the street. It is two storeys high, with a jettied first floor over the ground floor, displaying square panel framing. On the first floor, there is one diamond pane leaded casement window, while the ground floor has a five-light window with diagonal mullions. Each floor of the left-hand recessed bay contains one window. A studded door is located at the left end, and there are chimneys at the rear left and right. The right-hand return front features a gabled bay with one casement window on each floor.
Local climate
The Old Prison 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 2006
- 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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