Beaver Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1976. House.

Beaver Cottage

WRENN ID
strange-minaret-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 June 1976
Type
House
Address
Beaver Cottage, Rigden Road
OS grid reference
TR 005 410
Coordinates
51.13362, 0.86457
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Beaver Cottage is a building dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is two storeys high and has a stuccoed exterior with a hipped tiled roof. The front features two modern casement windows and a hipped weather porch. The right side of the building is constructed from ragstone with red brick quoins, while the rear elevation is tile hung and shows traces of timber-framing.

Local climate

Beaver Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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