Mitre Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1974. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Mitre Cottage
- WRENN ID
- burning-jade-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mitre Cottage, Fordcombe Road, Penshurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 529 400
- Coordinates
- 51.13891, 0.18495
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mitre Cottage is a 16th-century cottage that stands two storeys high and features two irregularly placed windows. It has a high-pitched tiled roof with a symmetrical central ridge stack. The exterior is weatherboarded, and there are small 19th-century casement windows. A 19th-century gabled wooden porch leads to a plank door. To the right, there is a small lean-to structure. The left side and the rear of the cottage display exposed framing with plaster filling on the first floor, and there is some coursed freestone masonry on the right side. Mitre Cottage and Ashurst Cottage are part of a group of buildings.
Local climate
Mitre 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 greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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