Osbornes is a Grade II listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1973. Cottage.

Osbornes

WRENN ID
haunted-vestry-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bromley
Constituency
Orpington MP: Gareth Bacon (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 June 1973
Type
Cottage
Address
Osbornes, Maypole Road
OS grid reference
TQ 489 638
Coordinates
51.3539, 0.1378
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Osbornes is a cottage dated 1705, located on Maypole Road in Chelsfield. It is two storeys high and features two windows. The building is constructed of red brick and has a plinth and string course. The roof is tiled, and there are casement windows. A modillion eaves cornice adds detail to the roofline, and there is a chimney stack on the right side. Access to the cottage is via a doorway at the top of seven steps, which has a tiled canopy added above it.

Local climate

Osbornes sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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