The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Surrey Heath local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1955. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ancient-hall-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Surrey Heath
- Constituency
- Surrey Heath MP: Dr Al Pinkerton (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Woodcock Lane, Chobham
- OS grid reference
- SU 959 634
- Coordinates
- 51.36189, -0.6234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the 18th century. It features a timber frame made of thin scantling, which is exposed and filled with whitewashed brick on a rendered plinth. The roof is thatched and has scalloped ridge decoration. The building is two storeys high with two framed bays and has a large offset end stack on the left and a smaller end stack on the right. The front has diagonal bracing and includes two casement windows on each floor, with a planked door located to the left of centre. At the rear, there is an extension with a catslide roof.
Local climate
The 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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