The Leather Bottle Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. Inn.
The Leather Bottle Inn
- WRENN ID
- high-tower-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1952
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Leather Bottle Inn, the Street, Cobham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 669 684
- Coordinates
- 51.39054, 0.39877
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Leather Bottle Inn is a 17th-century building with a timber frame and plaster infilling, topped with a tiled roof. It has an L-shaped layout. The inn was enlarged and largely rebuilt in the 20th century, with the north end of the west wing being completely new. The original features include a chimney inglenook and some timber framing, while the two casement windows on the front and side elevations are modern. The inn is listed as Grade II due to its association with Charles Dickens' novel "The Pickwick Papers," which includes an inscribed Sarsen stone now set against the south-west angle.
Local climate
The Leather Bottle Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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