The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Hillingdon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. Hall house.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vacant-bastion-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hillingdon
- Constituency
- Uxbridge and South Ruislip MP: Danny Beales (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- The Old Cottage, High Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 054 813
- Coordinates
- 51.52146, -0.48114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a late medieval hall house of Wealden type, located on High Road in Cowley Peachey. It has two storeys and three bays, with the central bay (the hall) floored and extended forward to create the appearance of a continuous jettied front. The timbers are exposed, with those on the front closely set and the rest featuring open square framing. The infill is partly plaster and partly brick. The cottage has a very high pitched roof, which is now half-hipped and constructed with crown posts. The roof is covered with old tiles, along with some 19th-century slate diapering. There is an off-centre chimney, and much of the timber and original fireplace is visible inside.
Local climate
The Old Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
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