Whitley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. A C18 Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Whitley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-cupola-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Whitley Cottage, Whitley Forest, Chevening, TN14 6BU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 499 527
- Coordinates
- 51.25444, 0.14715
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitley Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that stands two stories high and features two windows. It has a high-pitched tiled roof with chimneys at both ends. The first floor is tile hung, while the ground floor is made of red brick with a pattern of blue headers. The cottage includes modern square paned casements, which feature a small oriel window on the ground floor. There is a gabled porch with a glazed front, and a small, modern side extension that is set back from the main structure.
Local climate
Whitley Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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