Crack O'Dawn Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. Cottage.
Crack O'Dawn Cottages
- WRENN ID
- idle-shingle-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Crack O'Dawn Cottages, 1-2 Crack O'Dawn Cottages, Canterbury Road, Godmersham
- OS grid reference
- TR 053 491
- Coordinates
- 51.20444, 0.93773
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crack O'Dawn Cottages are early 19th-century cottages that have been converted into a house. They are constructed of chequered brick and feature a plain tile roof. The building is two storeys high and has a dogtooth cornice along the hipped roof, with stacks located at both the left and right ends. The front has a regular arrangement of four glazing bar sash windows on each floor, along with a central boarded door set within a gabled porch. There are outshots on both the left and right sides of the building.
Local climate
Crack O'Dawn 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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