Laurenden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. A Early C18 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Laurenden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ghost-gutter-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Laurenden Cottage, Church Lane, Challock, TN25 4AU
- OS grid reference
- TR 009 504
- Coordinates
- 51.21786, 0.87624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurenden Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage located on the east side of Church Lane in Challock Lees. It is constructed of red brick and features a plain tile roof. The building has one storey and an attic, with a hipped roof. There is one flat-topped dormer that breaks the eaves and a central stack. The windows are 20th-century wood casements. The front door consists of three fielded panels and is set within a 20th-century weatherboard porch located in front of the stack. This cottage is included in the register for its group value.
Local climate
Laurenden 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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 — 3 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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