Holly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. House.
Holly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- south-thatch-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holly Cottage, the Ridgeway, Smeeth
- OS grid reference
- TR 064 400
- Coordinates
- 51.12208, 0.94904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Cottage is a house dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of red brick and features tile hanging with ragstone on the return elevations. The roof is plain tiled and hipped, with stacks located to both the left and right sides. The building has two storeys and a regular arrangement of windows, including three glazing bar sashes on the first floor and two on the ground floor. The central entrance is a boarded door topped with a pediment supported by brackets. There are also glazing bar sashes on the return elevations.
Local climate
Holly 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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