The Cottage and Attached Front Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1999. House, offices.

The Cottage and Attached Front Garden Walls

WRENN ID
late-ledge-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Medway
Constituency
Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 August 1999
Type
House, offices
Address
The Cottage and Attached Front Garden Walls, Cottage Road
OS grid reference
TQ 758 688
Coordinates
51.39137, 0.52618
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage, now used as offices, dates from the early to mid-19th century and is located on Chatham Cottage Road within Chatham Dockyard. This building is constructed of brick and features brick lateral stacks and a hipped slate roof, reflecting a late Georgian style.

The exterior consists of three storeys and a basement, with a three-window range. It is double-fronted and has steps leading up to an open brick porch that includes a cornice and blocking course. The doorway has a recessed surround, an inner six-panel door, and round-arched side windows. There is a plat band and eaves cornice, with rubbed brick arches that are cambered over tripartite ground-floor four-over-four pane sashes, flat over first-floor six-over-six pane sashes, and second-floor three-over-six pane sashes. The building has one-window returns and a single-storey, two-window left-hand service block.

Inside, the space has been converted to offices and features a central dogleg stair. Additionally, there is an attached brick garden wall that extends approximately 100 meters around the garden to the west. The Cottage occupies a prominent position within the walls of the Georgian dockyard.

Local climate

The Cottage and Attached Front Garden Walls 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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