Grove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. House.

Grove Cottage

WRENN ID
solemn-copper-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 August 1988
Type
House
Address
Grove Cottage, Church Lane, Aldington
OS grid reference
TR 076 361
Coordinates
51.08735, 0.96423
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Grove Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century. It features a timber frame with tile hanging over a rendered ground floor and has a plain tiled roof. The building has a hall house plan and stands two storeys high with an attic on a plinth. The roof is hipped with gablets, and there is a gabled dormer located to the centre right, along with a stack to the centre left. On the right side, there are two three-light wooden casements and one two-light wooden casement on each floor. A boarded door is situated to the centre left within a gabled porch. At the rear, there is a catslide outshot. Inside, the cottage has stud partitions, inglenook fireplaces with a bread oven, and a crown post roof, which has been reported.

Local climate

Grove Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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