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
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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

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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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