Castle House and Albermarle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Castle House and Albermarle Cottage

WRENN ID
woven-zinc-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Medway
Constituency
Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 November 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Castle House and Albermarle Cottage, 19 and 21, High Street, Frindsbury Extra, ME2 4XG
OS grid reference
TQ 757 705
Coordinates
51.40631, 0.52571
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Castle House and Albemarle Cottage are a pair of cottages dating from the 17th century. The left cottage is timber-framed and covered with weatherboarding, while the right cottage has a rendered ground floor and weatherboarding on the first floor. They feature a plain tiled roof with a central chimney stack and two dormer windows. The left side has a projection, and the cottages are two storeys high with attics. The front has two windows, with a projecting bow window on the ground floor to the right.

Local climate

Castle House and Albermarle 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • 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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