Avenue Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1950. Cottage.

Avenue Cottage

WRENN ID
rusted-jade-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Richmond upon Thames
Constituency
Richmond Park MP: Sarah Olney (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1950
Type
Cottage
Address
Avenue Cottage, Ham Common
OS grid reference
TQ 176 721
Coordinates
51.4362, -0.30876
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Avenue Cottage has its origins in the 17th century and features a later gable. It forms a pair with Avenue Lodge Cottage, situated on either side of the avenue leading to Ham House. The building is two storeys tall, constructed of brick with a tiled roof and a brick modillion cornice table at the eaves. It has three windows across the front, with a central window and a hooded entrance set in an advanced bay that includes a Dutch gable. Inside, the cottage has an oak roof.

Local climate

Avenue 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 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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