Bennetts Grove is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Bennetts Grove

WRENN ID
dusk-mantel-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mole Valley
Constituency
Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Bennetts Grove, Pond Head Lane, Abinger, RH5 5PN
OS grid reference
TQ 117 395
Coordinates
51.14458, -0.40395
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bennetts Grove is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with a 20th-century extension on the left side. It features a timber frame that is underbuilt in whitewashed brick on a sandstone plinth. The frame is exposed above, with whitewashed brick infill and whitewashed brick extensions that are tile hung on the first floor. The roofs are plain tiled. The building has a two-bay end chimney plan, extended to the left and positioned at right angles to the road.

It stands two storeys tall, with a tension brace to the first floor on the left and a massive offset rubblestone stack on the right. There are two leaded casement windows on the first floor and one window on the ground floor to the right. The left gable end has one window on each floor. The entrance door is located to the left of centre and features a glazed port-hole with a four-centre arched head, alongside a further door in the extension. At the rear, there is a pentice catslide roof with two hipped-roof dormers.

Local climate

Bennetts Grove receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 4 transactions since 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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