Firbank House and Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1986. Former coach house/stables. 1 related planning application.
Firbank House and Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vacant-sentry-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waverley
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1986
- Type
- Former coach house/stables
- Address
- Firbank House and Hill Cottage, Charles Hill, Tilford, Farnham, Elstead, GU10 2AT
- OS grid reference
- SU 892 446
- Coordinates
- 51.19395, -0.72486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Firbank House and Hill Cottage are former coach house and stables, dating to around 1870, originally serving Charles Hill Court. The building is constructed of local ironstone rubble with buff-coloured brick dressings; the roofs are slate, with some scalloped bands and "fleur-de-lys" ridge cresting.
The main block is a one-storey building with an attic to the rear, featuring a central wooden ridge cupola under a turret roof. The cupola is octagonal, with open sides set upon a square plinth, and incorporates shouldered arches to each face. A regular front elevation runs at a right angle to the land, with a central gable featuring decorative pierced bargeboards. Smaller gables with similar bargeboards are situated on either side. A 20th-century cambered head casement window occupies the position of the original left-hand door, retaining its brick surround on the first floor, and there are casement windows with decorative elongated lozenge glazing tracery on either side. Five windows are present on the ground floor. A 20th-century hip-roofed square bay is located to the left of centre on the ground floor, as is a colourwashed brick extension to the left.
The entrance front, facing the lane, is a one-storey and attic building under gabled dormers with pierced bargeboards. Rendered end stacks are present. Casement windows with lozenge-shaped glazing bars are found on the first floor, while two 20th-century cambered head windows are on the ground floor. A central gabled porch with pierced bargeboards fronts a ribbed door set within a pointed arched brick quoined surround.
Local climate
Firbank House and Hill Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% 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, 15 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 — 6 transactions since 2001
- 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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