Bennetts Cottage the Old Lock Up is a Grade II listed building in the Tandridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1958. House.
Bennetts Cottage the Old Lock Up
- WRENN ID
- sombre-cobble-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tandridge
- Constituency
- East Surrey MP: Claire Coutinho (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bennetts Cottage the Old Lock Up, High Street, Oxted
- OS grid reference
- TQ 386 522
- Coordinates
- 51.25275, -0.01471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bennetts Cottage, also known as The Old Lock-up, is a house that has been divided, originally built in the 15th century with a 17th-century extension and 19th-century additions to the rear. The structure features a timber frame clad in whitewashed rubblestone and brick at the bottom, with tile hanging above. It has plain tiled roofs, including a large ridge stack at the rear right and an end stack to the right. The building has a T-shaped plan with a cross wing on the left end, and the main front faces at right angles to the road.
It stands two storeys high with an attic under a gabled dormer on the right side. The right side has two framed bays, while the left cross wing has two framed bays over a basement. The first floor of the left gable has a casement window, there are two casements on the first floor of the right side, and a bow window on the ground floor right. The central entrance features a four-panelled door. The street front to the left is rendered and has three casements across the first floor. There is also a 19th-century parallel range extending across the rear right. Inside, the timber framing is mainly visible on the ceilings.
Local climate
Bennetts Cottage the Old Lock Up receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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