Cosy Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
Cosy Cottages
- WRENN ID
- carved-bonework-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cosy Cottages, 2, Church Lane, Challock, TN25 4BT
- OS grid reference
- TR 009 505
- Coordinates
- 51.21841, 0.87573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cosy Cottages is a house dating from the early 18th century, with 20th-century additions. It features chequered brick and a plain tiled roof, following a lobby entry plan. The building is two storeys high, with a door located to the left of the centre, set within a 20th-century gabled porch. Above the door is a small light, and there is a stack at the rear of the entrance under a steeply hipped roof. To the left, there are 20th-century brick additions that include a one-storey section with an attic and a gabled dormer under a separately hipped roof. To the right, there is a 20th-century garage block made of brick with tile hanging and a hipped tile roof.
Local climate
Cosy Cottages 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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