Strange Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tandridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Strange Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-wall-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tandridge
- Constituency
- East Surrey MP: Claire Coutinho (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Strange Cottage, Birdsong Cottage, Pains Hill, Limpsfield, Oxted, RH8 0RG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 411 517
- Coordinates
- 51.24742, 0.02152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birdsong Cottage, formerly known as Strange Cottage, is a house that dates from the late 16th century and has 20th-century extensions. The building features a timber frame set on a rendered plinth, with red and blue brick infill and tile hanging on the right side. It has a plain tiled roof that is hipped to the right, with an offset end stack on the left. The house is two storeys tall and has two framed bays on the left, along with a one-bay extension on the right. The first floor has two 20th-century diamond-pane leaded casements. A 20th-century glazed door is located to the right in the extension. The left-hand return front is tile hung, and there is a catslide roof at the rear.
Local climate
Strange Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 transactions since 2003
- 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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