The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-flue-cobweb
- 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
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Mousehill Lane, Witley and Milford, GU8 5BQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 942 417
- Coordinates
- 51.16698, -0.65331
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a house dating to the late 16th century. It is timber-framed, with exposed timber and whitewashed brick infill. The roof is of plain tiles. The house is two storeys high, with a ridge stack positioned to the left of centre and a large end stack to the right, set on an offset plinth. There are two diamond-paned casements on the first floor, and three windows on the ground floor. A partly glazed door is located to the left of centre, set within a pentice roof porch wing at a right angle to the right. A single-storey 20th-century extension is present at the right end, featuring a stable-style door.
Local climate
The Old Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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