The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1953. Cottage.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gilded-vestry-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1953
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, 6, Trodds Lane
- OS grid reference
- TQ 029 505
- Coordinates
- 51.2451, -0.52694
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. It features a timber frame that is exposed, with whitewashed brick and render infill. The street-facing end and the 19th-century extension to the right are finished with whitewashed roughcast. The roof is plain tiled, with a half-hip and a gablet to the left. The building has a three-bay lobby-entry plan that is positioned at right angles to the street. It stands two storeys high and has stacks with corbelled tops located to the left of centre. The first floor displays diagonal arch-bracing, while there are two windows on the first floor and two three-light windows below. The entrance door is now located to the right of centre. There is a gable end parallel range to the front right, which has one three-light window on each floor and a stack at the rear where the two ranges meet.
Local climate
The Old 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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