The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1983. Hall-house. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-wattle-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1983
- Type
- Hall-house
- Address
- The Cottage, Norwood Hill Road, Charlwood, RH6 0EB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 242 416
- Coordinates
- 51.16025, -0.22464
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a late 15th or early 16th century hall-house, originally comprising three bays, with a two-bay hall and one end floored. It is timber-framed with painted brick infilling, although the south front is refaced with painted brick on the ground floor and tile hung above. The roof is hipped and thatched. Four casement windows are present.
Inside, a crown post is visible, and the original partition wall remains between the hall and service area, with two doors. A rare survival is the lath and daub hood for an inserted smoke bay; the wooden jambs of the smoke hood now frame the inserted brick chimney. This is one of only two remaining medieval thatched houses in Charlwood. It is suggested that the original roof pitch may have been intended for Horsham stone slabs.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% 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 64% 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 — 21 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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