Black Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Residential.
Black Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-spindle-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Black Cottage, Tenterden Road, High Halden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 888 369
- Coordinates
- 51.10041, 0.69589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Black Cottage is an 18th-century building consisting of two parallel ranges and stands two storeys tall. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, while the first floor is tile hung. It features a tiled roof that is half-hipped at one end of the front range. The cottage has two casement windows.
Local climate
Black Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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