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
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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