Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Residential.
Keeper's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-steel-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Keeper's Cottage, High Street, Seal
- OS grid reference
- TQ 547 567
- Coordinates
- 51.28883, 0.21765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keeper's Cottage is a building from the 18th century, likely incorporating elements from the 16th century. It is two storeys high and features four windows. The exterior is made of red brick, topped with a hip ridge tiled roof that has projecting boarded eaves and a gutter. A central chimney stack is present. There are modern additions on either side of the cottage. On the ground floor, the windows are casement style and are set under flat segmental arches. The entrance door has a projecting hood that is supported by carved wooden brackets. The first floor has four sets of casement windows.
Local climate
Keeper's 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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