Cherry Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Runnymede local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1986. House. 7 related planning applications.
Cherry Hill
- WRENN ID
- spare-eave-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Runnymede
- Constituency
- Windsor MP: Jack Rankin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cherry Hill, Portnall Drive
- OS grid reference
- SU 972 672
- Coordinates
- 51.39594, -0.6029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cherry Hill is a house built between 1933 and 1936 by Oliver Hill for a Miss Newton. It is designed in the International Modern style and has a shallow curve in its plan. The building is constructed of white-rendered brick and features a flat roof. It stands two storeys tall.
On the north side of the entrance, there is a projecting semi-circular glazed staircase tower that rises the full height of the building. This tower contains a circular staircase with an iron handrail on the glazed side and a solid banister on the other. To the left of the staircase tower, there is a tinted cylindrical water tower that serves as a roof feature. A two-light casement window has been added to the first floor since the house was built, while the ground floor retains its original seven-light low casement window. The doorcase features a flat and wide weatherboard above it. To the right of the staircase tower, there is a low three-light casement window on the first floor.
The principal rooms are located on the south front to maximize sunlight and views. These rooms mainly feature three-light casement windows and a flat veranda supported by plain columns, which leads to a large sitting room. At the west end of the sitting room, there is a glazed screen that opens into a semi-circular sun room. Originally named Holthanger, this house is a notable example of Oliver Hill's modern style.
Local climate
Cherry Hill 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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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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