Sun Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Sun Cottage
- WRENN ID
- other-forge-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sun Cottage, the Street, Charlwood, RH6 0DG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 242 411
- Coordinates
- 51.15609, -0.22434
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sun Cottage is a 17th century timber-framed building located on The Street. It stands two storeys tall, with the ground floor featuring timber-framing arranged in square panels. The first floor is adorned with diamond-shaped tiles. The roof is tiled and half-hipped to the east, where there was originally an end bay for the hearth. The cottage has two casement windows and a gabled weather-porch. At the back, there is an outshut and a back parlour wing made of painted brick. This parlour wing includes a notable brooch stop on the main girder.
Local climate
Sun 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- 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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