Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. House.
Fern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-footing-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fern Cottage, Taylors Hill, Chilham, CT4 8BZ
- OS grid reference
- TR 067 536
- Coordinates
- 51.24419, 0.9613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern Cottage is an 18th-century house located on the north side of Taylors Hill in Chilham. The building features chequered brickwork and has a plain tile roof. It stands two storeys high with an attic, resting on a brick plinth. There is a rear stack on the left side and a projecting end stack on the right, along with one hipped dormer. The facade has a regular arrangement of two windows, which are 20th-century wood casements set in segment-headed openings. To the left of the windows, there is a 20th-century door framed by a moulded wood surround. This building is included in the listing for its group value only.
Local climate
Fern Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% 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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