The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1980. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

The Old Cottage

WRENN ID
stranded-shingle-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Elmbridge
Constituency
Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
The Old Cottage, Arran Way, KT10 8BE
OS grid reference
TQ 138 660
Coordinates
51.38223, -0.3652
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Cottage is a 16th-century cottage located in Esher, within the Borough of Elmbridge. It features a timber frame with rendered infill and a plain tiled roof. The building is two storeys high and consists of four framed bays with square panels. The windows are 19th-century casements. There is a door on the left side, which is sheltered by a flat hood supported by brackets. Additionally, there is a pentice roof extension at the left end of the cottage.

Local climate

The Old Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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