Boswell Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Croydon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1954. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Boswell Cottages
- WRENN ID
- spare-oriel-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon South MP: Chris Philp (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1954
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Boswell Cottages, 19, South End, CR0 1BZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 324 648
- Coordinates
- 51.367, -0.09858
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Boswell Cottages, specifically No 19, is a two-storey building constructed from red brick, dating from the 18th century. It is similar in height and date to the adjoining No 17. The first floor features two sash windows, while the ground floor has a central round-headed sash window set in a rectangular frame. To the left of the ground floor, there is a doorway with a six-panel door, a rectangular fanlight above, and a simple hood supported by brackets. The building has a tiled roof.
The right-hand return front includes irregular end windows and an 18th-century door with a fanlight and canopy. Adjacent to this is an early 18th-century house that is two storeys high and five windows wide, featuring a slightly projecting central bay. It has a raised brick band between the storeys, cased sashes with glazing bars, and a central door framed by a Doric columned and pedimented doorcase, complete with fluted capitals and roundels on the entablature. The eaves cornice is heavy with modillions, and the roof is covered with old tiles, featuring three flat-topped dormers. Further along is a later 18th-century coach-house.
Local climate
Boswell Cottages 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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