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

Brisley Cottage

WRENN ID
turning-finial-sorrel
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
Brisley Cottage, Brisleywood Lane, Ruckinge
OS grid reference
TR 016 368
Coordinates
51.09524, 0.87793
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brisley Cottage is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with 17th-century elements and extensions made in the late 20th century. The building features a timber frame that is clad with painted brick, painted tile hanging, and weatherboarding, topped by a plain tiled roof. It stands two storeys high on a painted ragstone plinth, with an additional single storey where the roof steps up to the left. The roof is hipped and has a gablet on the lower right section, with a stack located off-centre to the left.

On the left side, there are three light wooden casements on each floor, a small mezzanine light to the right, and two light and three light wooden casements on the right. A plank and stud door is positioned centrally to the left within a 20th-century gabled porch. To the left, there is a single-storey hipped weatherboarded wing from the 20th century, along with extensive 20th-century wings at the rear.

Inside, the full frame is exposed, and the right-hand section of the main block is open to the roof, featuring a tie beam roof supported by main posts with jowls that die out, along with visible carpenter's marks.

Local climate

Brisley 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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