Headmaster's House is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.

Headmaster's House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mole Valley
Constituency
Epsom and Ewell MP: Helen Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Headmaster's House, Rookery Hil, KT21 1HY
OS grid reference
TQ 195 582
Coordinates
51.31096, -0.28611
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Headmaster's House is a house dated 1734, as noted on a sundial located on the first floor. It has been altered over time and is constructed of handmade red brick in Flemish bond, topped with a slate roof. The building features a rectangular plan, is two storeys high, and has a symmetrical facade with two bays on each side of a central three-bay section, which includes a three-course band.

The central section slightly projects forward and has corner pilasters at the ground floor. It features a square single-storey porch with a reeded surround around the doorway, a recessed door with glazed top panels, and a hipped roof. The ground floor includes segmental-headed cross-windows with casement openings and internal saddle-bars, although the window to the right of the center has been blocked, with only the head visible, and the next window has been slightly altered. On the first floor, there are three square blind windows in the center, with the middle window covered by a large rectangular sundial that has modern painted lettering, including the date "1734." The side ranges have 2-light casements.

The house has a hipped roof with a ridge chimney offset to the left of center and a side-wall chimney at the right-hand end. At the left end, there is an added screen wall that continues flush with the front wall, behind which is an earlier screen wall that ramps up to the eaves. The rear and interior of the building were not inspected.

Local climate

Headmaster's House 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 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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