Taw Cottage Tawside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1980. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Taw Cottage Tawside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-footing-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Taw Cottage Tawside Cottage, Balchin's Lane, RH4 3LL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 134 487
- Coordinates
- 51.22633, -0.3766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Taw Cottage, originally Tawside Cottage, is a late 19th-century building that obscures an earlier timber-framed open hall house, probably dating from the mid-16th century. It is two storeys high, with a ground floor of red brick and a first floor clad in tiles. The roof is tiled with bands of fishscale tiles, and there is a modern chimney stack. The first floor has two gabled casement windows, while the ground floor features casements with cambered head linings. There are two doorcases with gabled weatherboards.
The building began as a four-bay timber-framed open hall house with an internal jetty and two floored ends. The jetty remains visible, but the hall was floored over in the 17th century. Original features include exposed curved braces, part of the original lath and plaster infilling, and inglenook fireplaces.
Local climate
Taw Cottage Tawside Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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 — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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