Lower Mead Cottage and the Firs is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. House. 2 related planning applications.
Lower Mead Cottage and the Firs
- WRENN ID
- unlit-threshold-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lower Mead Cottage and the Firs, High Street, Leigh, TN11 8RW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 544 464
- Coordinates
- 51.19594, 0.20978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Mead Cottage and The Firs is an early 20th-century neo-Tudor pair, possibly designed by Sir Ernest George. The buildings are two storeys high with an attic and consist of three bays, with the right bay stepped back. They feature tiled roofs and the right bay has a tile-hung blank first floor. The other bays are gabled, showcasing oversailing gable ends and first floors supported by moulded beams. The first floor displays geometrical half-timbering with roughcast filling, while the ground floor is constructed of red brick, including a square bay window on the left. In the center, there is a porch that extends to overhang the first floor. The buildings also have one small gabled dormer and tall brick stacks. Lower Mead Cottage features a pent porch on its left return.
Local climate
Lower Mead Cottage and the Firs receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- 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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