The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1957. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- old-gable-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1957
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, the Cross, Bilsington
- OS grid reference
- TR 039 345
- Coordinates
- 51.07359, 0.91044
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century. It features a timber frame with exposed close-studding and plaster infill on the east front, while the south front, which serves as the main entrance, is clad in red and blue brick. The roof is plain tiled and hipped to the south, sharing a clustered brick chimneystack with the adjoining property to the west. The building has two storeys and displays irregularly-spaced casement windows. The east front includes a continuous jetty supported by brackets, featuring three arched tension braces and two irregularly-spaced wooden casements on each floor. The south front has a tripartite wooden casement on each floor, with the ground floor window having a segmental head and cornice, alongside a boarded door to the right. This house is a good example of 16th-century timber framing and is part of a group of significant buildings.
Local climate
The 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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