Volvens Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. House.
Volvens Farm House
- WRENN ID
- winter-lantern-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Volvens Farm House, Mole Street, Abinger
- OS grid reference
- TQ 135 405
- Coordinates
- 51.15282, -0.37761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Volvens Farm House is a house dating from the early 17th century, with 20th-century extensions. It features a timber frame with square panels, colourwashed brick infill on the left side of the ground floor, and rendered infill for the rest. The roof is covered with Horsham slabs and the building has two storeys with attics in the gable to the left of centre. A large corbelled stack is positioned to the right of centre, and the roof has been raised.
There is a 3-light attic window in the gable, which shows some evidence of previous scrolled carvings that suggest it may have been an oriel window. Below, there is an oriel window supported by two corbel brackets, which is sheltered by a tiled pent hood that extends across the base of the attic gable. On the first floor to the right, there is an 8-light oriel window, and a small window to the left. A tiled pentice hood runs across the ground floor, with one window to the left and square oriel windows to the right of centre and to the right, all beneath tiled hoods and on corbelled brackets. A stable-style door is located to the left.
On the right-hand return front, there is a gable-lit attic with tile hanging on the first floor, which is canted out at the bottom. The ground floor features a 12-pane glazing-bar sash window and a glazed door to the right. At the rear, there is a wing projecting to the left and a single-storey wing to the right, with a door to the right of centre in a weatherboard porch.
Local climate
Volvens Farm House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% 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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