The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. Hall house.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- last-render-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Chipstead Lane, Riverhead, TN13 2AH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 512 561
- Coordinates
- 51.28396, 0.16814
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a hall house dating from the early 15th century or earlier. It stands two storeys high with a gable end facing the road and a hipped roof at the rear, topped by a large tiled roof. The gable end overhangs and is supported by three stout brackets. On the east front, there is an off-centre gable featuring a later stone chimney built against it. The building showcases visible stout timber framing with plaster or painted brick filling, and the three-window east front is weatherboarded. It has modern casements and a modern door made of old oak. It is said to retain crown posts. The Old Cottage, along with the Old Farm House and the stable building, forms a group.
Local climate
The Old Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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