West Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Cottage.
West Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-pillar-ochre
- 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
- West Cottage, Lambden Road, Pluckley
- OS grid reference
- TQ 920 446
- Coordinates
- 51.16846, 0.74572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Cottage is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed building located on Lambden Road in Pluckley. It has two storeys, with the ground floor constructed of red brick and the first floor being tile-hung. The roof is hipped and tiled. The building features four casement windows and a simple doorcase.
Local climate
West Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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