Buttles Steps Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Buttles Steps Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-plinth-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Buttles Steps Cottage, Froghole Lane, Westerham, TN8 6TD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 448 509
- Coordinates
- 51.23952, 0.07377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Buttles Steps Cottage is a small cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier, constructed of rubble stonework and built into the side of a hill. The cottage has two storeys and features two windows. It has a thatched ridge roof with an end chimney that has been partly rebuilt. In front, there are two large sloped stone buttresses, along with a modern brick buttress at the left end. The replaced casement windows and the modern door in the glazed porch are accented with red brick dressings. There are also modern extensions located at the back of the cottage.
Local climate
Buttles Steps 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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