Boswell Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. House. 5 related planning applications.
Boswell Farm House
- WRENN ID
- low-transept-jet
- 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
- Boswell Farm House, Ruckmans Lane, Ockley, RH5 5NE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 139 372
- Coordinates
- 51.12322, -0.37264
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Boswell Farm House is a late 16th-century house located in Ockley. It features a timber frame set on a brick plinth, with brick infilling and some sections of wattle and daub. The roof is covered with Horsham slabs on the left and front, while the right side has a half-hipped roof with upper courses of slate and lower courses of plain tiles. The building has an unusual cross-shaped plan and stands two storeys high, with a 17th-century stack positioned at the junctions of the ranges.
On the first floor, there is curved bracing, and the left side has two framed bays, each with a diamond-pane leaded casement window on both floors. The right side also has two bays, featuring one diamond-pane casement window on the first floor and a blocked door below. The central gabled porch includes a first-floor window and a door to the left, with a queen-post truss visible in the gable.
Inside, the left half is open to the roof and has a smoke hood over the chimney. At the time of the resurvey, the house was used as a store for kennels and had remained virtually unaltered since the 19th century.
Local climate
Boswell Farm House 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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