Number 76 (Including Premises of Bateman Optician and Harold Hodgson) is a Grade II* listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1972. Commercial.
Number 76 (Including Premises of Bateman Optician and Harold Hodgson)
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-vestry-sorrel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Waverley
- Constituency
- Farnham and Bordon MP: Gregory Stafford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1972
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Number 76 (Including Premises of Bateman Optician and Harold Hodgson), Castle Street, Farnham
- OS grid reference
- SU 839 469
- Coordinates
- 51.21528, -0.79895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 76, which includes the premises of Bateman Optician and Harold Hodgson, is a late 18th-century building that has been altered on the ground floor. It stands three stories tall and is constructed of brick, featuring a moulded eaves cornice supported by pairs of cut brackets. The roof is covered with old tiles.
On the upper floors, there are three windows, with the outer windows having four panes each. The ground floor has a central six-panel door topped by an arched fanlight with a radiating and circular pattern. This door is set in a flush panelled reveal that has a reeded band around the arch. The doorcase is adorned with delicate fluted engaged Doric columns, a broken entablature with roundels on the frieze, and an open pediment.
The two shops on the ground floor are designed with elaborate but delicate details that are modern yet sympathetic to the character of the house. The left shop, Bateman Optician, features a triple-arched front with two small box windows and a central half-glazed door. The right shop, Harold Hodgson, has two rectangular bays and a central glazed door. Both shops are framed with pilasters and entablatures of different designs.
All the listed buildings on the east side of Castle Street form a group.
Local climate
Number 76 (Including Premises of Bateman Optician and Harold Hodgson) receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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