Elizabethan Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1982. Cottage.
Elizabethan Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-niche-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Elizabethan Cottage, Swanley Village Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 529 695
- Coordinates
- 51.40443, 0.19722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elizabethan Cottage is a building located on Swanley Village Road, dating back to 1604, with repairs and partial rebuilding completed in 1713, and restoration and decoration carried out in 1880. The exterior, which dates from 1880, conceals a timber-framed structure. The building is two storeys high, with the ground floor finished in painted brick featuring decorative ties, while the first floor is adorned with curved tiles. The roof is tiled, half-hipped at one end and hipped at the other, and includes a central chimneystack, with a catslide at the rear. The ground floor features two sliding sash windows and a penticed doorcase. Inside, the cottage has exposed beams and an inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
Elizabethan 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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