Amherst Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Cottage.
Amherst Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-bailey-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Amherst Cottage, Amherst Hill, Riverhead
- OS grid reference
- TQ 515 559
- Coordinates
- 51.28254, 0.17121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Amherst Cottage is a mid to late 19th-century lodge designed in the Tudor-Gothic style. It has one storey and an attic, featuring two windows. The building has a high-pitched tiled roof that is cross-gabled on the right side, and it includes a chimney stack with three tall diagonal brick shafts. The walls are made of roughly coursed, galletted rubble masonry, accented with freestone quoins and dressings. The windows have interlaced bars, with those in the attic positioned under pointed arches, while the ground floor windows feature carved lintels and hoodmoulds. There is a gabled porch on the right side with a pointed entrance arch. The door behind the porch has a four-centred head and tracery panelling. Adjoining to the north is an 18th-century one-storey brick building, which is currently used as a garage.
Local climate
Amherst 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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