Flint Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1951. Cottage.
Flint Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-attic-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1951
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Flint Cottage, the Zig Zag, Mickleham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 172 523
- Coordinates
- 51.2583, -0.32152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Flint Cottage is a late 18th century or early 19th century building located on Box Hill. It is two storeys high and features three windows on the south-west side and two windows on the south-east side. The exterior is faced with flints, complemented by red brick window dressings, quoins, and a stringcourse. The south-west front has a parapet made of flints, topped with two horizontal courses of bricks. There is an eaves cornice on the south-east front and a hipped slate roof. A trellised wooden porch leads up five steps to the entrance. This house was the residence of the writer George Meredith from 1889 until 1909, and he passed away there on May 18, 1909. The building is illustrated in "Old English Houses" by Hugh Braun.
Local climate
Flint Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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