Whitewood Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1988. Cottage.

Whitewood Cottages

WRENN ID
mired-marble-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sevenoaks
Constituency
Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Whitewood Cottages, 3, High Street, Eynsford
OS grid reference
TQ 542 657
Coordinates
51.36953, 0.21465
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Whitewood Cottages is a cottage located on Eynsford High Street, with its front dating from the early 19th century and the rear parts from the 16th and 17th centuries. The front is finished in stucco and features a tiled roof with one painted brick chimney stack. The cottage is two storeys high and has one window. The ground floor includes a casement window with a cambered head and a left side doorcase topped with a flat wooden eaves hood. The rear elevation retains part of a 17th-century gable, which is clad in brick on the ground floor and weatherboarded above, and shares this gable with No 2. It has a casement window and a plank door. Inside, the front room features an early 19th-century cambered brick fireplace and a wooden corner cupboard with curved shelves, along with an earlier horizontal wooden beam. The first floor displays an exposed close-studded wall, some framing with jowled posts and curved tension braces, pegged rafters, and several plank doors.

Local climate

Whitewood Cottages 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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