Nile Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1981. House. 1 related planning application.

Nile Cottage

WRENN ID
floating-footing-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Medway
Constituency
Gillingham and Rainham MP: Naushabah Khan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 November 1981
Type
House
Address
Nile Cottage, 78, 79 and 80, Mill Road, ME7 1JB
OS grid reference
TQ 770 691
Coordinates
51.39339, 0.54378
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nile Cottage is a terrace of three houses built in the 18th century and remodeled in the early 19th century. The structure is made of rendered and painted brick with brick axial stacks located below the ridge, topped by a hipped slate roof. The building has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high with a window arrangement of 2:2:1. The exterior features an irregular range with two roofs.

No. 80 has a right-hand doorway with an architrave and a six-panel door, with the top pair of windows being glazed. No. 79 has a left-of-centre half-glazed door with a bracketed canopy, while No. 78 features a right-hand door with a bracketed canopy and a panelled door. All houses have 6/6-pane sash windows in exposed frames, with the middle windows slightly staggered. Notably, No. 80 has a panel inscribed "Nile Cottage 1722."

Inside, No. 80 includes an entrance stair hall with a flight of stairs featuring turned balusters, panelled doors, and early 19th-century cast-iron fireplaces. It is reported that the remodeling in the early 19th century was carried out by Admiral Austen, who lived from 1774 to 1865.

Local climate

Nile 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 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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