The College Including Former Kitchen to South West is a Grade II* listed building in the Tandridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1958. A Post-medieval House. 5 related planning applications.
The College Including Former Kitchen to South West
- WRENN ID
- old-step-river
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Tandridge
- Constituency
- East Surrey MP: Claire Coutinho (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1958
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- The College Including Former Kitchen to South West, College Close, Lingfield, RH7 6HG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 388 437
- Coordinates
- 51.17635, -0.0152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The College, including the former kitchen to the southwest, is a house dating from around 1700, which incorporates some materials from the 15th century and was restored in 1973. The building features a brown brick base with alternating bands of fishscale and diamond pattern tile hanging above. It has a main roof made of Horsham slabs laid in diminishing courses, while the extensions and rear have plain tiled roofs. The structure is two storeys high with an attic beneath a central hipped Horsham slab roof, which includes a leaded casement dormer.
The main house has end ridge stacks and a moulded wooden string course above the ground floor, along with coved moulded wooden eaves. The east front is notable for its symmetrical arrangement, showcasing a rare survival of five wooden mullion and transom 36-pane leaded casements on the first floor. There is a central six-panel door on the ground floor, which is topped by a leaded transom light and framed by an architrave surround with a flat hood supported by moulded brackets. To the right, there is a single-storey 20th-century garage extension. The rear features wings at right angles, and the former kitchen, located to the southwest, is a one-storey structure with a partially collapsed roof and two leaded arched casement windows.
Inside, the property has largely been restored, featuring an early 18th-century staircase with turned balusters for the balustrade. The College was built on the site of the Old College, which was founded in 1431 by Reginald, Lord Cobham, for the training of chaplains, several of whom are buried and commemorated in the adjacent parish church.
Local climate
The College Including Former Kitchen to South West 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- 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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