Church Approach is a Grade II listed building in the Runnymede local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1982. A Medieval Cottage.
Church Approach
- WRENN ID
- rusted-garret-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Runnymede
- Constituency
- Runnymede and Weybridge MP: Dr Ben Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church Approach, 1 and 2
- OS grid reference
- TQ 024 686
- Coordinates
- 51.40802, -0.52906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 and 2 Church Approach, formerly known as Carl Haws Cottages, are two cottages that have been combined into one building. This structure originated as a medieval hall house, with a later 17th-century wing added at the rear. It features a timber frame with later brick cladding and a hipped thatched roof, which has been replaced with plain clay tiles and includes smoke gablets.
The hall house consists of two bays and has crown post trusses. A later inserted floor showcases massive exposed joists and partitions supported by a central truss. The front has a tie beam and collar purlin that has been cut. There is a central door flanked by four windows, which are three-pane, two-light casements. The rear wing has a gabled tile roof that connects with level ridges and features an exposed timber frame with square panels of red brick. It includes casement windows, a later brick porch, and a lean-to that encloses the south wall.
The upper level displays herringbone red brick set in lime mortar, and the original oak diagonal bar windows are now missing. The interior reveals exposed timbers in the floor, and there is a massive brick stack at the junction of the wing, featuring a large deep fireplace and a smaller fireplace above. A simple stack rises above the roof, and there is a disused well located at the southwest corner.
Local climate
Church Approach sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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