8, Upton Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bexley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1980. Cottage.
8, Upton Road
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-paling-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bexley
- Constituency
- Bexleyheath and Crayford MP: Daniel Francis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- TQ 481 753
- Coordinates
- 51.45748, 0.13121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 Upton Road is a mid-19th century cottage ornee, believed to date from 1856. It is constructed of yellow brick and has a single storey. The central door features a rounded fanlight, with round-headed windows on either side that have Gothic intersecting tracery. The building is topped with a hipped thatched roof, which includes a dormer with a pointed head and casement. There are two yellow brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
8, Upton Road sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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