Alma Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Cottages. 4 related planning applications.
Alma Cottages
- WRENN ID
- vacant-flagstone-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Alma Cottages, 12-18, Regent Street, Rolvenden, TN17 4PE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 842 315
- Coordinates
- 51.05331, 0.62798
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alma Cottages, located on Regent Street in Rolvenden, date from 1854, although this date refers to alterations made to an 18th-century core. The building is two storeys high and constructed of red brick. It features a half-hipped tiled roof with four gabled dormers that have finials and pendants. There are six windows in total, all retaining their glazing bars. The entrance has a simple doorcase. The side elevations are partly weatherboarded and partly tile hung.
Local climate
Alma Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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