Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1973. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Walnut Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lunar-floor-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Orpington MP: Gareth Bacon (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Walnut Tree Cottage, 1-3, Luxted Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 431 616
- Coordinates
- 51.33598, 0.05353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Tree Cottage is one of a group of four cottages located at the junction of High Street and Luxted Road in Downe. The cottage was originally timber-framed but was refaced in the 18th century. It is two storeys high, with a ground floor faced in flint and brick quoins, and a first floor weatherboarded. The roof is tiled, incorporating both a moulded eaves cornice and a modillion cornice. The windows are mostly 19th-century casements.
Local climate
Walnut Tree Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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