Old Darent Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Old Darent Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-rafter-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Darent Cottage, Church Street, Shoreham, TN14 7SL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 519 615
- Coordinates
- 51.33319, 0.17957
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Darent Cottage is a late medieval timber-framed cottage located on the south side of Church Street in Shoreham. The building stands two storeys high and features two windows. It has a hipped, tiled roof adorned with small ridge gablets and projecting end stacks. The first floor is tile hung, while the ground floor showcases visible framing with painted brick filling. The cottage includes 19th-century casement windows and has a modern wide glazed front porch with a hipped tiled roof.
Local climate
Old Darent Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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