Salcombe Cottage and Attached Cast Iron Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 1980. House.
Salcombe Cottage and Attached Cast Iron Railings
- WRENN ID
- rough-tracery-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Gillingham and Rainham MP: Naushabah Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Salcombe Cottage and Attached Cast Iron Railings, 23, Wyles Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 772 691
- Coordinates
- 51.39344, 0.54656
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Salcombe Cottage is a house dated 1854, located on Wyles Street in Gillingham. The building is rendered and features brick lateral stacks on the right side, topped with a slate hipped roof. It has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high with an attic and basement, displaying a two-window range.
The exterior includes a left-hand round-arched doorway with a moulded surround, a door featuring two tall flush panels, and a plate-glass fanlight above. There is a single round-arched window on the ground floor with a moulded surround, while the first-floor windows have plain surrounds and 6/6-pane sash windows. The basement features a segmental-arched window, and there is a single 3/6-pane top-hung casement with a cambered head. The overhanging eaves are supported by paired brackets flanking the upper windows. A raised panel on the first floor is inscribed with "SALCOMBE COTTAGE/ 1854."
Inside, the cottage has a hall with a round arch and a rear side dogleg stair that includes stick balusters. Additionally, there are attached cast-iron railings surrounding the basement area and entrance steps.
Local climate
Salcombe Cottage and Attached Cast Iron Railings 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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