Boathouse to Middle Pond, Busbridge Lakes is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1960. Boathouse.

Boathouse to Middle Pond, Busbridge Lakes

WRENN ID
crumbling-plaster-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Waverley
Constituency
Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 March 1960
Type
Boathouse
Address
Boathouse to Middle Pond, Busbridge Lakes, Hambledon Road, Munstead and Tuesley
OS grid reference
SU 973 420
Coordinates
51.16938, -0.60952
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Boathouse to Middle Pond at Busbridge Lakes is an early 19th-century structure. It is cement rendered with wood mouldings and has pantiled roofs. The boathouse is rectangular with its gable end facing the lake, featuring a roundel in the tympanum and an arched opening below, surrounded by trellis outer walls. There is a single-storey range at right angles to the boathouse, supported by three thin columns at the front, with a planked door and window behind. A small stack is located at the end. The shore front has a pedimented gable end with blank panels and two pointed blocked wooden doorways.

Inside, the boathouse includes ashlar quays with a rounded end and steps, as well as a room that features an early 19th-century marble mantelpiece. This boathouse is part of a series of landscape buildings in a Romantic Garden designed by Philip Cartaret Webb between 1748 and 1770. It is mentioned in Neale's "Seats of the Nobility and Gentry" and the garden is now recognized as a site of Historic Interest in the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.

Local climate

Boathouse to Middle Pond, Busbridge Lakes receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% 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, 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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