The Old Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Woking local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1953. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- woven-spire-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Woking
- Constituency
- Woking MP: Mr Will Forster (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1953
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Oak Cottage, 17, Vicarage Road, GU22 9BH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 008 569
- Coordinates
- 51.30313, -0.55446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Oak Cottage is a 16th-century cottage located on Vicarage Road, in the Borough of Woking. It is a timber-frame building, with whitewashed brick infill to the return fronts and a 19th-century brick facade. The roof is covered in plain tiles and is half-hipped with gablets, featuring a centre ridge stack. The cottage has a single storey and an attic, with dormers under a hipped roof. It features casement windows, two on each floor, with the ground floor windows set under camber heads. A central plank door is set within a brick porch with a weatherboard gable.
Local climate
The Old Oak 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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 — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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