Toyswood Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Toyswood Cottage
- WRENN ID
- empty-gravel-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Toyswood Cottage, Brasted, TN8 6NP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 472 503
- Coordinates
- 51.23327, 0.10801
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Toyswood Cottage is a likely 15th century timber-framed cottage that stands two storeys high and features two windows. The cottage has a high-pitched tiled roof with a chimney at the right end. The first floor is tile-hung, while the ground floor is made of red brick with some blue headers. It has small modern casement windows and a French door. There is a modern lean-to extension on the right and a short extension at the rear. Inside, there are close-set beams and a rebuilt inglenook fireplace in the downstairs room.
Local climate
Toyswood Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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