Snows Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1973. Cottages. 1 related planning application.

Snows Cottages

WRENN ID
tangled-moulding-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bromley
Constituency
Orpington MP: Gareth Bacon (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 June 1973
Type
Cottages
Address
Snows Cottages, 1-4, Luxted Road, BR6 7JP
OS grid reference
TQ 431 616
Coordinates
51.33561, 0.05318
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Snows Cottages are a group of four early 19th-century cottages located on Luxted Road, Downe. They are two storeys and attic in height, with a five-window front. The facades are faced with flints, accentuated by vertical strips of red brick, and feature long and short quoins, and a brick modillioned eaves cornice. The windows are casement type. Cottages number 1 and 2 have doors consisting of six fielded panels. The roof slopes to a single-storey height at the rear.

Local climate

Snows Cottages 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2001
  • 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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