Smithwood Common Lodge. is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1987. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
Smithwood Common Lodge.
- WRENN ID
- vast-rafter-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waverley
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1987
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Smithwood Common Lodge., Willinghurst, Cranleigh, GU6 8QY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 051 416
- Coordinates
- 51.16469, -0.49704
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smithwood Common Lodge is a lodge of 1897, likely designed by Philip Webb, the architect of Willinghurst House. It was built as an entrance feature to Willinghurst House. Constructed of red brick with blue brick detailing in English bond, it has a plain tile roof.
The lodge is single-storied, with a two-bay front and a further, lower bay to the rear, creating an L-shaped plan. It features leaded windows throughout. A pent roof porch gives access to an internal board door on the right side of the gabled right-hand bay. This bay has a canted bay window built on a brick buttress and supported by wooden brackets under a pent roof. Above the canted bay is a gable painted white, bearing the embossed date and initials "J C . Left R E S”. The left-hand bay has a narrow single-light window. The roof is hipped on the left side. Tall brick stacks have dentilled tables to the ridge of the left bay and to the rear of the right bay. The left return has paired windows to the central bay, a single window to the right bay, and a 20th-century window to the lower left-hand bay.
At the rear, the projecting bay on the right has weatherboarded rear walls and a left return, with a hipped roof. The left return is open, revealing board doors to three out-offices. The gable of the left-hand bay is also weatherboarded.
The lodge shares a similar design to Stroud Lodge but has undergone fewer alterations.
Local climate
Smithwood Common Lodge. 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 — 5 transactions since 1999
- 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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