Quilters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Cottage.

Quilters Cottage

WRENN ID
blind-paling-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Quilters Cottage, Smarden Road, Bethersden
OS grid reference
TQ 902 395
Coordinates
51.12407, 0.7173
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Quilters Cottage is an 18th-century building located on Smarden Road in Bethersden. It is constructed of red brick with grey headers and has two storeys. The cottage features two casement windows and is topped with a hipped tiled roof.

Local climate

Quilters 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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