Friendly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1960. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.

Friendly Cottage

WRENN ID
fallow-rood-juniper
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
Friendly Cottage, Run Common, Wonersh, GU5 0SY
OS grid reference
TQ 038 419
Coordinates
51.16698, -0.51659
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Friendly Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th century to the left, and the 17th century to the right. The left side is timber framed with red, blue, and brown brick infill, while the right side is partially underbuilt in brick on the ground floor. The roof is tiled, hipped with a gablet to the left, half-hipped with a gablet to the right, and steps up to the right. The cottage has two storeys with an attic to the left, which is under a hipped dormer. A multiple stack is located to the right of centre. There is one first-floor window to the left and two to the right. Architectural details include ogee bracing to the first floor on the right, and diagonal bracing to the left. The ground floor has one window to the right and two to the left. A 20th-century brick and timber hipped roof porch shelters the door located to the right of centre. A hipped dormer is present on the left-hand return front.

Local climate

Friendly 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 — 1 transaction since 2007
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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