Old College Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1982. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Old College Cottage
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old College Cottage, 1, 2 and 3, Swanley Village Road, BR8 7NG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 531 695
- Coordinates
- 51.4042, 0.2003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old College Cottage, comprising numbers 1, 2 and 3, is an 18th century or earlier building of red brick construction. It has a hipped tiled roof and casement windows. An external brick chimneystack is also present. The entrance features a simple doorcase within a wooden architrave. The cottage may have originally belonged to Cobham College, as suggested by a Land Tax Assessment of 1780.
Local climate
Old College Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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