Old Meads Sunnyside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1980. House. 3 related planning applications.
Old Meads Sunnyside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-hearth-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Meads Sunnyside Cottage, Church Road, Sevenoaks Weald, TN14 6LU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 528 510
- Coordinates
- 51.23845, 0.1876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Meads and Sunnyside Cottage is a likely 17th-century timber-framed house that has been re-fronted and extended to the north in the early to mid-19th century. It is currently divided into two dwellings. The older section features a ground floor made of diapered brick and a first floor tiled with fishscale patterns, topped with a tiled roof. The building has two storeys and three windows with small paned casements. There is a six-panel door with a flat hood above it, and a blocked, segment-headed cellar window can be seen along with a brick plinth. The south end wall and chimney have been rebuilt.
The northern part of the building is also two storeys but has only one window. It is constructed of red brick with quoins and has a hipped tiled roof. This section includes a four-panel door with an oblong fanlight under a cambered arch.
The rear elevation features a lean-to on the south side and two small gabled wings to the north, one of which has a chimney. The building likely had an L-shaped original layout. Inside, exposed beams and joists are visible, with the beams displaying step-and tongue-stopped chamfers. The roof is supported by coupled rafters with high collars and ashlaring at the eaves, and some timbered partitions can still be seen.
Local climate
Old Meads Sunnyside 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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