Black Cottage Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1982. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Black Cottage Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- second-storey-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Black Cottage Farmhouse, New Street Road, Ash-Cum-Ridley, TN15 7JY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 629 639
- Coordinates
- 51.35157, 0.33886
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Black Cottage Farmhouse is a 17th-century or earlier timber-framed cottage. It was originally timber-framed, but is now faced with tarred weatherboarding laid upon a brick base. The cottage is two storeys high and has a hipped thatched roof with a pentice behind. There are two casement windows, and a simple doorcase.
Local climate
Black Cottage Farmhouse 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings