Whitewood Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1982. A C18 Cottages.
Whitewood Cottages
- WRENN ID
- blind-vestry-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1982
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Whitewood Cottages, 1 and 2, High Street, Eynsford, DA4 0AW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 542 657
- Coordinates
- 51.3696, 0.21471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitewood Cottages, located on the south-east side of Eynsford High Street, is a timber-framed building that was refaced in the 18th century. It stands two storeys high and is finished in stucco with a tiled roof. The second cottage, No 2, features an external brick chimneystack, while No 1 has a later casement window, and No 2 has a sash window. Both cottages have simple doorcases topped with flat weather hoods supported by brackets. Additionally, No 1 includes a later pentice extension, and there is a weatherboarded range at the rear.
Local climate
Whitewood Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- No related consent applications matched
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