Castle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Castle Cottage

WRENN ID
knotted-sandstone-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mole Valley
Constituency
Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 November 1966
Type
Cottage
Address
Castle Cottage, Mole Street, Abinger, RH5 5PB
OS grid reference
TQ 136 401
Coordinates
51.14962, -0.37613
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Castle Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with 20th-century extensions and restoration. It features exposed timber framing, with 20th-century brick infilling on the ground floor center and right, whitewashed brick infill above to the right, and whitewashed render infill on the gable wing. The roof is plain-tiled, with a tile-hung gable to the left that includes some diamond-point and fishscale patterning. The building has a T-shaped plan and multiple stacks to the left of center.

It is two storeys high, with tension braces on the first floor of the gabled wing and ogee bracing to the first floor on the right. There are two framed bays on the right side, featuring four diamond-pane leaded casement windows on the first floor and one square-pane window to the left of the stacks. The ground floor has four square-pane leaded casement windows. The first floor of the wing includes a three-light diamond-pane window, while the ground floor has a two-light window and an adjacent three-light window. The left-hand return front has pentice courses of tiles on braces over the ground floor, with a door to the left. At the rear, there are two gables at the center and right, with tiled entices across.

Local climate

Castle Cottage 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 — 1 transaction since 2024
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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