The Little Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Spelthorne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1969. A C18 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Little Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solemn-chalk-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Spelthorne
- Constituency
- Spelthorne MP: Lincoln Jopp (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1969
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Little Cottage, Chertsey Road, Shepperton, TW17 9LF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 074 665
- Coordinates
- 51.38794, -0.45727
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Little Cottage is an 18th-century cottage with a timber-frame core. The front is of whitewashed brick, and the roof is covered with plain tiles. The cottage has two storeys and a large ridge stack to the right, featuring a corbelled top. There are two sash windows on the first floor, each containing eight panes arranged in two rows of four. A smaller, similar window is located on the ground floor to the left. To the right, there are two twelve-pane windows, arranged in three rows of four, each set under a cambered head. A part-glazed door is situated to the left of the centre, set within an open gable porch supported by tree trunk supports. Inside, there is a deep fireplace on the ground floor to the right.
Local climate
The Little Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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