The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1955. Cottage.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fossil-quartz-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Bromley and Biggin Hill MP: Peter Fortune (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, 2 and 4, Bickley Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 418 692
- Coordinates
- 51.40461, 0.03769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a restored timber-framed building located on Brickley Road in Bromley. It features red brick infilling and has a modern tiled roof. The structure is two storeys high and has four windows, with the first-floor windows being modern gabled dormers. There is a two-storey porch; the ground floor showcases open timbering with a plastered cove above, while the first floor is weatherboarded on the south front and plastered on the sides. The gable above has moulded bargeboards and a pendant. Additionally, there are 19th-century red brick additions to the north of the building.
Local climate
The Old Cottage 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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