Dormer Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. A C16 House. 4 related planning applications.
Dormer Cottage
- WRENN ID
- nether-vault-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dormer Cottage, 8, St Edith's Road, Kemsing, TN15 6PT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 554 586
- Coordinates
- 51.30553, 0.2288
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dormer Cottage is a 16th century or earlier timber-framed house, which may have originally been a one-ended hall or a hall with one end removed. The building has two storeys and features four windows in the hall. It has a high-pitched tiled roof with rebuilt ridge stacks and one dormer. The first floor is tile hung, while the ground floor is timber framed with red brick filling. The left bay of No 10 is an addition made from the same materials. The windows include 19th century and modern casements. Inside, there are inglenooks and exposed beams.
Local climate
Dormer Cottage 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.
- 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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