Pollards 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.
Pollards Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eternal-cupola-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pollards Cottage, Mapleton Road, Westerham, TN8 6PN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 459 499
- Coordinates
- 51.23047, 0.08925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pollards Cottage is a timber-framed building, likely dating from the 16th century or earlier, and was originally two dwellings. The front, which faces the garden, has two storeys and five windows. It features a high-pitched tiled roof, half-hipped on the right side, with a renewed section on the left, and a rebuilt ridge stack. The first floor is tile-hung, while the ground floor is brick. Casement windows with glazing bars are present, dating from the 19th century and more recent replacements. A timber-framed porch with a pent and tiled roof is a modern addition. Inside, there is an original small inglenook fireplace with a barrel-roofed bread oven, along with a larger inglenook. Original plank floors and old doors remain, and a significant amount of exposed timber is visible, including heavy tie beams and posts with diagonal braces.
Local climate
Pollards Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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 — 2 transactions since 1997
- 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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