Giffords Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1982. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Giffords Cottages
- WRENN ID
- vast-minaret-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1982
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Giffords Cottages, Holmesdale Road, Horton Kirby and South Darenth, DA4 9AE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 563 695
- Coordinates
- 51.40384, 0.24694
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Giffords Cottages, Nos 1 to 3, are a range of cottages forming an L-shape, with a front section dating to the 17th century and a rear wing potentially of earlier origin. The cottages are two storeys high. The front has a painted brick ground floor and tile hanging to the first floor, topped by an old tiled roof that is hipped at one end. An external brick chimneystack is located on the left. There are three casement windows and simple doorcases. The right-hand bay and wing appear to be a 17th or earlier timber-framed structure, possibly originally an open hall. This section also has a ground floor of painted brick, a first floor of tile hanging, and a hipped tiled roof terminating in a gablet.
Local climate
Giffords 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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