Home Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Reigate and Banstead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1977. A C18 Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Home Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-mullion-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reigate and Banstead
- Constituency
- East Surrey MP: Claire Coutinho (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Home Cottage, Quality Street, RH1 3BB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 289 534
- Coordinates
- 51.26546, -0.15309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Cottage is a mid to late 18th century cottage that stands two storeys high and features two windows. The roof has a moderate pitch and is hipped on the left side, having been renewed with machine tiles. The front of the cottage is stuccoed from the 19th century and has incised lines. It includes sash windows set in moulded wood architraves; the first-floor windows have glazing bars, while the ground floor features margin lights. The entrance has a four-panel door topped with an oblong fanlight, all beneath a bracketed cornice hood. Home Cottage is part of a group that includes Merstham Garage, The White Cottage, York Cottages, and The Gables, with The White Cottage and York Cottages noted for local interest only.
Local climate
Home Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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 — 8 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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