Heather Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Heather Bank
- WRENN ID
- worn-hammer-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waverley
- Constituency
- Farnham and Bordon MP: Gregory Stafford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Heather Bank, Tower Road, Haslemere, GU26 6SW
- OS grid reference
- SU 882 358
- Coordinates
- 51.11542, -0.74021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Heather Bank is a large, circa 1900, L-shaped house built in the Art Nouveau style. The ground floor is constructed of red brick with stone dressings, while the upper portion is roughcast with half-timbered gable ends. The roof is steeply pitched and tiled, featuring dormers. The house is two storeys and has an attic, with an irregular plan. On the garden front, it has five bays. The windows are stone mullioned and transomed, with varied shapes and Art Nouveau leaded glazing, incorporating some coloured glass. Projecting corner bays are present on the ground floor, alongside smaller first-floor oriels. A back hall displays glazed tiles decorated with plant forms. A tall, red brick entrance tower rises above the building, featuring a battlemented parapet and a pyramidal roof. The building is of group value, partly due to its historical association as the residence of Marie Stopes, the palaeobotanist and advocate of family planning. She also gained local appreciation for purchasing the Golden Valley and donating it to the community as a permanent open space.
Local climate
Heather Bank receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 24 transactions since 1997
- 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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