The Garth is a Grade II* listed building in the Tandridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1958. Former workhouse. 4 related planning applications.
The Garth
- WRENN ID
- stony-hammer-winter
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Tandridge
- Constituency
- East Surrey MP: Claire Coutinho (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1958
- Type
- Former workhouse
- Address
- The Garth, Newchapel Road, Lingfield, RH7 6BJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 380 436
- Coordinates
- 51.17557, -0.0262
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Garth is a former parish workhouse with an attached house, and a later house, dating from 1729. It was altered in 1919 by W.H. Godfrey. The building is constructed of red and blue brick in the lower sections, with plain tiled cladding to the first floor on the left, and diamond brick patterning on the right and across the former entrance front. The roof is plain tiled, featuring three rear stacks to the left of centre and right, and one to the right with a beehive top. The main entrance front faces the rear.
The building is two storeys high, with a three-storey gabled bay to the left and a single-storey wing projecting from the front left. It has an attic with two leaded casement dormers, six casement windows across the first floor (the majority leaded), four windows to the ground floor on the left, and a planked entrance door to the left of centre, sheltered by a flat hood supported by volute foliage brackets.
The garden front, formerly the entrance front, features a brick plinth and four leaded gabled casement dormers to the left, with eight leaded casements across the first floor and four on the ground floor. The left return front has an angled bay to the ground floor.
Internally, the building features beamed ceilings with chamfered main beams. The building is noted in Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England, Surrey (1971), page 350.
Local climate
The Garth receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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