Grafham Grange is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1986. House, school. 4 related planning applications.
Grafham Grange
- WRENN ID
- tenth-crypt-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waverley
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1986
- Type
- House, school
- Address
- Grafham Grange, Horsham Road, Bramley, GU5 0LH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 019 415
- Coordinates
- 51.16411, -0.54311
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grafham Grange is a large house, built in 1854 by Henry Woodyer for his own residence. Servants' quarters were added by him before 1870. The house was subsequently remodelled and extended in 1893 and 1906 by A.B. Burnell, and a billiard room was added by Shepherd. The construction is primarily of coursed Bargate stone with red brick dressings, with tile-hanging to the rear and some timber framed gables featuring rendered infill. The building has plain tiled roofs, with hipped sections and prominent gables on the front and side elevations. It is two storeys high, partly over cellars, and has a complex plan that was originally H-shaped, later evolving into a square plan around a central courtyard due to later extensions.
The front elevation features attic dormers and offset end stacks, with a front stack to the left. A steeply pitched gable on the left side has a small crowning segmental pediment, and a similar gable to the right features scrolled kneelers. A through-eaves dormer window between the two gables has wood framed, leaded fenestration under a Jacobethan style scroll pediment. The left hand gable contains two stilted-arch casement windows on the first floor, and one similar window on the ground floor. An attic window is situated above. Six windows are distributed across the first floor, including a four-light cambered head window in the gable to the right. A panelled door is positioned on the ground floor, to the left of centre, within a chamfered surround. A wooden turret, with a lead covered dome and leaded glazing, along with moulded mullions and cornices, and a crowning iron weathervane, is located centrally on the rear roof.
The left hand return front has gabled bays; the one on the left features mullioned and transomed windows on the first floor above a balustraded angle bay window. The right hand gable contains an oval window supported by a scrolled bracket, rising through the first and attic floors with mullioned and transomed lights, some leaded glazing, and carving along the base of the gable. There are two segmental-head windows on the ground floor. A large dormer window, with a centre segmental hood, is positioned over the recessed central range, featuring pilaster piers supporting six "cross" lights. A gabled dormer sits in the angle between the right hand gable and the centre range. Three windows are located on the ground floor of the centre range.
The interior features a fine staircase, oak panelled ceilings, some oak floors, and stone fireplaces.
Local climate
Grafham Grange sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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