Bank Top Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Bank Top Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-oriel-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bank Top Cottage, Seal Chart, TN15 0ES
- OS grid reference
- TQ 575 565
- Coordinates
- 51.28634, 0.25824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bank Top Cottage is likely a 15th or early 16th century hall house of three bays. It has a hip tiled roof with a ridge stack. The first floor displays visible timber framing with brick infilling, while the ground floor is constructed of red brick with blue headers. Modern square-paned casement windows and a modern half-glazed door are present. The rear roofline slopes low, and modern dormers have been inserted.
Local climate
Bank Top Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 2004
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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