Beech Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Croydon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1972. House. 1 related planning application.
Beech Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-plaster-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Streatham and Croydon North MP: Steve Reed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beech Cottage, 165, Gibsons Hill
- OS grid reference
- TQ 316 707
- Coordinates
- 51.42026, -0.10743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech Cottage is an early 19th century building constructed of brick and featuring two storeys. The façade includes three sash windows with blind-boxes. A modern Doric porch, which has a pediment and decorative triglyphs and guttae, leads to a flush-panelled door. There are iron railings and four stone steps at the entrance. The roof is hipped and covered with slate, featuring wide eaves and two round-headed dormers. The cottage has end stacks.
Local climate
Beech 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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