Old Ballards Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Croydon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1971. Farmhouse.
Old Ballards Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-brass-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon East MP: Natasha Irons (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1971
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Ballards Cottage, Hollingsworth Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 349 637
- Coordinates
- 51.35639, -0.06384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Ballards Cottage is an early 18th century farmhouse that has seen later additions. The building features brick that has been colourwashed and rendered on the south rear elevations. It stands two storeys high with a raised band between the floors and consists of three bays. A modern central porch with an old tile roof is present, along with an old tile roof on the house itself, which includes two hipped dormers. The windows throughout the property are modern and feature mullions and transoms.
Local climate
Old Ballards 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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