Highwayman's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 1953. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Highwayman's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-vault-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Constituency
- Runnymede and Weybridge MP: Dr Ben Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1953
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Highwayman's Cottage, High Street, KT22 0JE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 146 604
- Coordinates
- 51.33134, -0.35624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highwayman’s Cottage is a 16th-century cottage in Oxshott, located on the High Street in the Borough of Elmbridge. The building is timber framed with whitewashed brick infill and a pantiled roof, which is half-hipped with gablets. It features stacks located to the front left and end right. The cottage has two storeys and three framed bays. The windows are leaded casements, with some featuring a diamond pattern. A 20th-century bay window is present on the ground floor to the right, sheltered by a plain tiled pentice roof. A planked, ribbed and studded door, complete with strapwork hinges, is set within a recessed porch on the left side. A timber-framed wing extends to the rear of the property.
Local climate
Highwayman's 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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