Faraday Cottage, King's Store Cottage and Attached Garage Between King's Store Cottage and Old Court House is a Grade II listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. Cottage, garage.

Faraday Cottage, King's Store Cottage and Attached Garage Between King's Store Cottage and Old Court House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Richmond upon Thames
Constituency
Twickenham MP: Munira Wilson (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage, garage
Address
Faraday Cottage, King's Store Cottage and Attached Garage Between King's Store Cottage and Old Court House, Hampton Court Green
OS grid reference
TQ 153 686
Coordinates
51.40499, -0.34268
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Faraday Cottage, King's Store Cottage, and the attached garage are located on the south side of Hampton Court Green. These buildings date back to the early 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. Faraday Cottage features a façade from around 1900, with red brick on the ground floor and roughcast on the first floor, adorned with decorative timber work. It has a steeply pitched, plain-tiled roof. King's Store Cottage is weatherboarded and has a plain tiled hipped roof. The garage, which is one storey high, is situated to the left and has double timber doors that span its full width, topped by a steeply pitched plain-tiled roof.

Faraday Cottage is two storeys tall, plus dormers, while King's Store Cottage is slightly taller with two storeys. King's Store Cottage has a façade that reflects an 18th-century style but incorporates 16th-century timbers in its structure and roof. It features three windows across the front, square-headed windows, and two-light casements with mid-19th-century overlapping paned glazing. The entrance is centrally located with a square-headed door and a rectangular fanlight above, leading to a panelled door. There is a carriageway to the left with double timber doors.

Faraday Cottage has an irregular façade from around 1900, with segmental-headed windows on the ground floor and square-headed windows above, also featuring two-light casements and gabled dormers. The rear wall of Faraday Cottage showcases brickwork from the 16th century. The interior retains features from the 16th century, including a roof with windbraces, which is also visible in the garage roof.

Local climate

Faraday Cottage, King's Store Cottage and Attached Garage Between King's Store Cottage and Old Court House 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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