The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1973. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-vault-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waverley
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Wonersh Common, GU5 0PL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 018 456
- Coordinates
- 51.20085, -0.54364
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with 19th-century extensions to the right. The original section is timber-framed and has brick cladding below, with cement render cladding above, and a plain tiled roof. The 19th-century extensions are in brick. The cottage is two storeys high and has a crowstepped stack at the left end, with the extensions stepping up to the right. The original part of the cottage has two casement windows on the first floor and two small windows on the ground floor. A door is located to the left of the centre of the front, sheltered by a gabled porch. The extension has one sash window on the first floor and one window below. A half-glazed door is set under a half-open gabled porch. A pentice extension runs across the rear of the building.
Local climate
The 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 — 8 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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