The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. House.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-floor-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Constituency
- Runnymede and Weybridge MP: Dr Ben Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Cottage, The Ridings, Cobham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 132 612
- Coordinates
- 51.3391, -0.37519
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a house that dates from the late 16th century on the left side, with extensions added in the 1930s on the right. The building features a timber frame that is exposed on the left, with red brick infill set on a brick plinth. The right side has false framed extensions and a weatherboard square bay. The roofs are plain tiled, hipped with a gablet on the right. The left side has one storey and an attic, while the right side has two storeys. There is a ridge stack to the left of the center and double square stacks at the rear right. The left side has three framed bays with arched bracing on the first floor. There are two hipped roof dormers through the eaves on the first floor left, along with one casement window at the left end. The ground floor features four leaded casement windows, and there is a hipped roof, two-storey square bay on the right. The entrance door is located to the right of the center, and there is a weatherboard pentice extension at the left end. A large hipped roof extension is present at the rear.
Local climate
The Old Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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