Shields Cottages and High Hope is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1984. Terraced cottage. 11 related planning applications.
Shields Cottages and High Hope
- WRENN ID
- dim-stair-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1984
- Type
- Terraced cottage
- Address
- Shields Cottages and High Hope, 1-3, the Street, Plaxtol, Sevenoaks, TN15 0QH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 605 534
- Coordinates
- 51.2579, 0.29947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of three terraced cottages, known as Shields Cottages, together with the adjacent property High Hope, located on The Street in Plaxtol. The cottages were built in 1802, as indicated by a datestone on the first floor. They are constructed of red brick with decorative blue headers, featuring a wooden eaves cornice and a mansard roof covered in plain tiles. The roof is punctuated by four sashed, segment-headed dormers, and there are two ridge stacks positioned either side of the centre. The front of the cottages has a symmetrical arrangement with four window openings, spaced between two pairs of doorways, one at each end and two in the centre. The windows are sashed with glazing bars, open boxes and gauged heads. The doorways have panelled, quarter-glazed doors, each protected by a flat hood supported on brackets. The datestone is set within a circular recessed panel on the first floor.
Local climate
Shields Cottages and High Hope receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 16 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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