Highlands Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1982. House. 5 related planning applications.
Highlands Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eastward-vestry-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Highlands Cottage, Highlands Hill, Swanley, BR8 7NB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 525 695
- Coordinates
- 51.40482, 0.19133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highlands Cottage is a house of 17th-century origin, significantly enlarged in the 18th century. It is L-shaped and has two storeys, with weatherboard cladding. The roof is tiled. The windows are mostly modern casements, but the 18th-century front door is distinguished by a flat weather hood supported by brackets, and a five-panelled door with a cut-away and glazed upper panel.
Local climate
Highlands Cottage 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 — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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