Hope Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. A C16 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Hope Cottage
- WRENN ID
- unlit-newel-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hope Cottage, Uckfield Lane, Hever, TN8 7LQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 473 446
- Coordinates
- 51.18189, 0.10671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hope Cottage is a timber-framed building dating from the 16th century, located on the east side of Uckfield Lane in Hever. It is two storeys high and features three irregularly spaced windows. The roof is hipped and tiled, with a modern chimney stack. The first floor is tile hung, while the ground floor is made of coursed freestone, except for the right bay, which has a brick ground floor from a former outshot. The windows are modern casements, and there is a plank door. The cottage has modern additions at the rear and retains exposed timber inside.
Local climate
Hope 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 — 1 application
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- 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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