The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-beam-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Chiddingstone
- OS grid reference
- TQ 516 466
- Coordinates
- 51.19906, 0.16983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is an 18th-century building located in Chiddingstone Causeway. It is a two-storey cottage with two windows and features a high-pitched tiled roof. The right end has a chimney with tumbled brick offsets. The first floor is tile hung, while the ground floor is made of red brick decorated with a diaper pattern of blue headers. The windows are 19th-century square paned casements. There is a small gabled trellis porch that leads to a plain plank door.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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