Home Cottage the Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Home Cottage the Homestead
- WRENN ID
- pitched-tallow-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Home Cottage the Homestead, High Street, Seal, TN15 0AH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 545 567
- Coordinates
- 51.28918, 0.21521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Homestead, also known as Home Cottage, is an 18th-century building with 19th-century additions. It is two storeys high, with a symmetrical facade of four windows. The roof is tiled, with a moulded wooden eaves cornice. The front is painted brick. The upper floor contains two original 18th-century sash windows with glazing bars, one restored sash window with bars, and a bricked-up window recess. The ground floor features three 18th-century tripartite sash windows framed by 19th-century square mouldings above, and one modern window has been inserted.
Local climate
Home Cottage the Homestead receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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