Peony Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1960. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Peony Cottage

WRENN ID
white-lintel-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Waverley
Constituency
Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 March 1960
Type
Cottage
Address
Peony Cottage, the Street, Wonersh, GU5 0PF
OS grid reference
TQ 015 451
Coordinates
51.1969, -0.54812
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Peony Cottage (formerly known as Park Cottage, Phlox Cottage and the cottage occupied by Bicknell) is a late 18th-century cottage, with alterations and extensions dating to the mid-to-late 19th Century. It is constructed of red-brown brick, with some flared headers, and has plain tiled roofs with painted bargeboards to the gables. The cottage has an L-shaped plan with lower additions at the rear.

The main front has a projecting gable-ended range to the left, featuring a gabled oriel window with a decorative lozenge leaded light in a mullioned and transomed window. Matching decoratively leaded, single-light windows are positioned to the right of the centre, one on either side of a pointed-arched door. The door is sheltered by a gabled hood supported on rustic wooden brackets. The return front to the right has a similarly leaded oriel window within a gable. A sash window is located in a gable on the left return front, while the lower rear extension has leaded casement windows. Tall multiple stacks, with star-shaped sections and corbelled tops, rise on a plinth to the right of the centre, and a smaller stack is situated at the rear.

The left-hand return front features brown brick with some blue headers. This side has two storeys on a plinth, with two windows on each floor facing the street. The ground floor windows have cambered heads. The left-hand return front has one first-floor and two cambered-head ground-floor windows. A door is positioned to the left of the centre on the left-hand return front, and is covered by a flat hood supported on wrought iron brackets. Stacks are present to the left and right of the front range at the rear. The cottage was possibly a former lodge to Wonersh Park and is included on the list solely for its group value.

Local climate

Peony Cottage 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 10 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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