Lion Cottages (No 1 Darenth Insurance Brokers Limited)(Nos 2 and 3) is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.

Lion Cottages (No 1 Darenth Insurance Brokers Limited)(Nos 2 and 3)

WRENN ID
waning-merlon-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sevenoaks
Constituency
Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 June 1967
Type
House
Address
Lion Cottages (No 1 Darenth Insurance Brokers Limited)(Nos 2 and 3), High Street, Farningham, DA4 0DP
OS grid reference
TQ 545 670
Coordinates
51.38149, 0.21985
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lion Cottages, consisting of numbers 2 and 3, are a 14th and 15th century timber-framed building, originally an open hall, which has been faced with weatherboarding. The building has a hipped tiled roof. It is two storeys high and has five casement windows. The first floor of the south-east end, number 3, which dates from the 14th century, oversails on brackets on both the north-east and south-east fronts, with a dragon beam to the south-east. There are two windows facing the south-east, and two plain doorcases. The roof is of kingpost construction. The building retains inglenook fireplaces.

Local climate

Lion Cottages (No 1 Darenth Insurance Brokers Limited)(Nos 2 and 3) 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2012
  • 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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