Laundry Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1981. Residential building. 2 related planning applications.
Laundry Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-moulding-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1981
- Type
- Residential building
- Address
- Laundry Cottage, Hildenborough Road, Leigh, TN11 8NA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 553 474
- Coordinates
- 51.20511, 0.22291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laundry Cottage, dated 1855 as indicated by a plaque on the gable end, is likely to have been designed by George Devey, given its close proximity to Home Farm, where he undertook extensive work. The cottage is built of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with pale brick headers. Decorative diaper patterns adorn the gables. The roof is covered with fishscale tiles, featuring fleur-de-lys ridge tiles, and is topped by two tall brick chimneys with arrises and multi-stepped cornices. Elaborate carved and pierced bargeboards are present. The corners are defined by alternating sandstone quions. The cottage follows a square plan, with two storeys and two windows on each side. The ground floor windows are three-light casements with transoms, set in chamfered reveals with gauged brick arches and sloped stone cills. A gabled porch provides entrance through a four-centred arch, with benches to the side and a four-panel door.
Local climate
Laundry Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- 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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