The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1967. Cottage.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
watchful-beam-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sevenoaks
Constituency
Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 June 1967
Type
Cottage
Address
The Cottage, High Street, Farningham
OS grid reference
TQ 544 671
Coordinates
51.38225, 0.21872
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is an 18th-century cottage situated sideways to Farningham High Street. It is two storeys high with attics and constructed of painted brick. The roof is hipped and tiled. The west side features three windows, while the south side has two windows and one dormer. All windows are sashes with intact glazing bars. The west front includes a doorcase topped with a flat hood supported by brackets.

Local climate

The 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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