Gorse Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Woking local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Gorse Hill
- WRENN ID
- seventh-mantel-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Woking
- Constituency
- Woking MP: Mr Will Forster (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gorse Hill, Hook Heath Road, GU22 0QF
- OS grid reference
- SU 978 567
- Coordinates
- 51.30159, -0.59752
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gorse Hill is a former house built in 1910 by E P Warren in a classical style. The building features a combination of render and stone with a hipped plain tiled roof and two panelled stacks on the main block.
The court front has two storeys and an attic, highlighted by three segmental pedimented dormers, with the outer dormers featuring flanking scrolls. It has nine bays, with the centre five recessed. The glazing bar sash windows have arched mouldings and keystones above in the outer bays, and cill aprons below. The central projecting stone entrance bay is quoined and pedimented, with a first floor window that has a lugged surround and flanking foliage scrolls. The entrance features half-glazed doors set in an Ionic plaster surround, supporting a segmented pediment and a projecting keystone. There is also a bay set back to the right side, which has a rusticated gable and a Venetian window on the first floor.
The garden front consists of seven bays, with the centre five recessed. It has hipped roof dormers at the ends, and the central three dormers are linked. The outer doors have segmental pediments and black surrounds, while the middle dormer features a triangular pediment with an eaved foliage surround. A bow window is located in the centre of the ground floor, supported by six Doric columns that are glazed between. The hoppers are dated 1910.
Local climate
Gorse Hill 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- 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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