Skinners House Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. House.
Skinners House Cottages
- WRENN ID
- keen-threshold-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Skinners House Cottages, Chiddingstone
- OS grid reference
- TQ 496 431
- Coordinates
- 51.16777, 0.13914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Skinners House Cottages is a house that dates from two periods. The left side features a 15th-century hall house, which is concealed by 16th-century or early 17th-century extensions at the front and right. Originally divided into four dwellings, it is now empty and awaiting conversion back into a single residence.
On the left, there is a gable-ended projection with diamond-paned windows, and the gable end overhangs, supported by carved wooden brackets and a moulded crosspiece. The building has two storeys and a small gable-ended attic window. In the centre, there is a smaller gable-ended projection that serves as a porch. The first floor originally jettied, but the ground floor has been built out.
To the right, the building has a ridge tile roof with a stack and a small half-dormer. It is two storeys high with plain cottage casements. The west elevation features a ridge tile roof with one end hipped, partly tile-hung, and has a weatherboarded addition at the rear. The plinth is made of random stone. Inside, there are large inglenooks made of dressed stone with carved beams, dais panelling with a moulded beam above, and much other exposed timber.
Local climate
Skinners House Cottages 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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