Southdown Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Southdown Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-slate-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Southdown Cottage, Chevening, TN13 2QD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 507 555
- Coordinates
- 51.27877, 0.15948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Southdown Cottage is an early 18th century cottage with a two-storey front, originally featuring two windows. The cottage has two tiled gable ends of differing widths and a tiled roof. The first floor is painted brick, while the ground floor is of coursed rubble with red brick dressings. Modern square-paned casement windows are set under shallow segmental brick arches. A central pair of glazed double doors is set within a moulded frame. A later projecting porch, with a panelled soffit, is supported by thin columns, an entablature, and a modillioned cornice. Southdown Cottage forms a group with The Post Office, Nos 1 to 9 (Park Place Cottages), Glencot, Yew Tree Cottage, Tanners Cottage, Southdown House, its garden wall and the surrounding landscape.
Local climate
Southdown 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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