Barge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Barge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-wattle-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Barge Cottage, Wittersham Road, Rolvenden, TN17 4QA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 868 279
- Coordinates
- 51.0207, 0.6624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barge Cottage is an early to mid-19th century building. It is two storeys high and constructed with a ground floor of red brick and a first floor clad in tiles. The roof is slate-covered. The windows are three sashes with vertical glazing bars only. A simple doorcase is present.
Local climate
Barge 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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