The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- riven-nave-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Main Street, Penshurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 526 437
- Coordinates
- 51.17256, 0.18239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a Grade II listed building located on Main Street in Penshurst. It features a Queen Anne style facade that conceals a 16th-century framed structure. The building is two stories high and includes dormers, with a ridge tile roof and a central chimney stack. The exterior is made of brick, accented by a brick band. A notable feature is the ornamental three-centred brick moulding above the door, which is likely from the 19th century.
On the ground floor, there is a restored panelled doorway with top lights, surrounded by egg and dart moulding along the chamfered edges of the panels. Flanking the door are two octagonal projecting bay windows with sash bars, supported by carved wooden brackets. The doorway is sheltered by a projecting hood, also supported by carved wooden brackets resting on stone corbels. A continuous dentilled moulding forms the cornice for both the bay windows and the hood.
On the first floor, there are two sash windows in exposed frames, with a dentilled frieze and cornice that support the gutter. The building features two hip tiled dormers with heavy oversailing moulded eaves and casement windows, all with glazing bars.
The Cottage, along with Quaintways Tea Rooms, Colquhoun House, and Longford, forms a group with Kirkwood Garden Shop and La Petite Hair Salon.
Local climate
The 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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