Little Chested is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Cottage.
Little Chested
- WRENN ID
- sheer-ember-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Chested, Chiddingstone
- OS grid reference
- TQ 506 463
- Coordinates
- 51.19693, 0.15502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Chested is a 16th century or earlier timber-framed cottage located on Chiddingstone Causeway in Penshurst. The cottage has two storeys and features two windows. It has a high-pitched tiled roof and a large old chimney with offsets and a double stack at the left end. The first floor is tile hung, while the ground floor is made of 18th century or early 19th century red brick with blue headers, although the brickwork at the right end is later. The windows are modern casements, and the entrance is located on the return side. There are 19th century and modern extensions at the rear.
Local climate
Little Chested 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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