2, 4, 6, and 8, Church Road is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
2, 4, 6, and 8, Church Road
- WRENN ID
- veiled-mortar-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 2, 4, 6, and 8, Church Road, KT23 3PW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 134 546
- Coordinates
- 51.27978, -0.37478
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
2, 4, 6, and 8 Church Road is a house that has been converted into three dwellings. It likely dates from the late 16th century, with a wing added in the late 17th century and a cottage added in the 19th century. The building has a timber frame that is cased in brick, with the first floor rendered, and features a red tile roof. The structure is L-shaped, formed by the original two-unit house, which is probably of smoke-bay type, with a receding wing added on the right side and a cottage on the left.
The building is two storeys tall and now has four bays. The doorways in the second and third bays have been altered, and there is evidence of a former doorway aligned with the chimney at the junction of these two bays. The ground floor has four large altered or inserted casement windows, while the eaves feature four smaller altered casements. The roof is hipped at both ends, with a ridge chimney offset to the left of centre, a side-wall chimney at the left end, and a composite chimney stack at the rear gable of the wing. The rear wall is mostly covered by an added lean-to, but above this, the tops of three wall-posts and one curved brace are visible, along with some very small windows.
Inside, Nos. 2 and 4 (now one dwelling) retain timber-framing elements, including wall-posts with both curved and straight bracing, wall-plates, rails, and the tie-beam of the former south gable wall, which shows mortices from a former wooden diamond mullion window. There is a spine beam on the ground floor with a tongue-stopped chamfer, and a common rafter roof with an added axial purlin that supports the first-floor ceiling. No. 6 has a spine beam of inferior quality, some tension braces in the former north gable wall, and it is reported that the roof of this part has some smoke-blackened rafters, although it was not inspected.
Local climate
2, 4, 6, and 8, Church Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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