Foxglove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Foxglove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-banister-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Foxglove Cottage, Little Bookham Street, KT23 3BX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 126 552
- Coordinates
- 51.28496, -0.38617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Foxglove Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the late 17th century and has been enlarged and altered over time. It features white-painted roughcast, probably over brick, with a red tile roof and a brick chimney stack. The building has a two-unit plan with lean-to additions on the left end and rear, as well as a small set-back wing added to the right-hand end.
The cottage is one-and-a-half storeys tall and was formerly symmetrical in design. It has a plinth and a first-floor band, with a central doorway that features a 19th-century glazed and panelled door beneath a pitched canopy. To the left of the door is a two-light casement window, while to the right is an inserted door that has replaced a former window. A central dormer breaks the eaves and contains a two-light casement window. The roof is adorned with a band of fish-scale tiles and has a large external chimney stack on the left gable, which is surrounded by the lean-to that includes a door and a single-light window. All the windows have glazing bars.
On the right-hand gable wall, there is an added two-storey bay window. The rear of the cottage features a catslide roof with a dormer window in the first bay. Inside, there is a timber-framed lateral partition, with the first bay containing a chamfered lateral beam with cyma stops and a rebuilt inglenook fireplace. The second bay has exposed joists, and the wall plates are visible at the first floor.
Local climate
Foxglove 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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