Hickens Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. House.
Hickens Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-porch-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hickens Cottage, Chiddingstone
- OS grid reference
- TQ 503 478
- Coordinates
- 51.21015, 0.15052
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hickens Cottage is a timber-framed house, likely dating from the 17th century. It has two storeys and features four irregularly placed windows. The roof is half hipped and tiled, with a rebuilt ridge stack. The first floor is tile hung, while the ground floor is constructed of red brick with a pattern of blue headers. The windows are small modern leaded casements, and there is a six-panel door located under a modern gabled porch.
Local climate
Hickens 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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