Riverside Chambers and Attached Screen Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1979. House. 1 related planning application.
Riverside Chambers and Attached Screen Walls
- WRENN ID
- tilted-brick-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waverley
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- Riverside Chambers and Attached Screen Walls, 20, Bridge Road, Godalming, GU7 1HY
- OS grid reference
- SU 973 440
- Coordinates
- 51.18715, -0.60845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a house, now used as solicitors' offices, with attached screen walls. It likely dates from the late 17th century and early 18th century, incorporating three distinct phases of construction, with 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of painted brick and timber frame with brick infill, and has plain tile roofs.
The main block is two storeys high with two bays, and features a gabled projection to the rear. A narrower, timber-framed wing extends to the rear, two rooms deep. A side entrance is present. The front of the building has two 16-pane sash windows on each floor, with glazing bars in wooden architraves. Behind a parapet rises a hipped roof with tall external end stacks, one offset, and a taller gabled roof with a cross-ridge stack further back. The attached screen walls on either side have round arches, the one on the left featuring a vermiculated keystone.
The left return shows differently-coursed brickwork in the rear bay of the main block, both sections having stepped dentilled eaves. The timber-framed wing on the left has a rear outshut. The timber framing is of poor quality, with posts, a mid-rail, a wall-plate, and spindly studs. The roof of this wing is half-hipped on the left and has 20th-century skylights. A main entrance is located on the right return.
Inside, the front left room contains an 18th-century fireplace with a wooden architrave featuring fluted pilasters, a frieze with end paterae, and a moulded shelf. The rear bay's 18th-century stone fireplace surround has pilasters, a moulded cornice on blocks, and a mantleshelf.
Local climate
Riverside Chambers and Attached Screen Walls 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2006
- 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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