Wicken Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Wicken Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-cloister-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wicken Cottage, High Street, Edenbridge, TN8 5DB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 444 457
- Coordinates
- 51.19295, 0.0664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wicken Cottage is a 16th century or earlier timber-framed building located on the east side of High Street in Edenbridge, adjoining Nos 1 and 2 Hever Road. The cottage has two storeys, featuring three windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor. It has a very high pitched tiled roof that extends down as a lean-to at the back. There is an end projecting stack with a random stone base. The first floor is refaced with tiles, while the ground floor is faced with brick. The cottage includes various 19th century casements and a modern part-glazed door. Wicken Cottage is part of a group with Nos 2 and 4 Hever Road.
Local climate
Wicken Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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