Medway Cottage Medway House is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. House. 4 related planning applications.
Medway Cottage Medway House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-groin-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Medway Cottage Medway House, High Street, Cowden, TN8 7JQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 465 404
- Coordinates
- 51.14458, 0.09324
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Medway Cottage and Medway House are mid-19th century buildings located on the south side of High Street in Cowden. They are two storeys tall and feature a total of five windows. The buildings are constructed of red brick and have a fairly low pitched hipped slate roof. A stucco band runs along the first floor. The sash windows, some of which have glazing bars, are topped with gauged brick arches. Medway House has a four-panel door with sidelights set in a modified entablature surround, while Medway Cottage has a similar four-panel door to the left. These buildings are included for their group value, along with Nos 13 to 19 (odd).
Local climate
Medway Cottage Medway House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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