Island Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Cottage.
Island Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-parapet-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Island Cottage, 18, Swan Street, Wittersham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 895 274
- Coordinates
- 51.01519, 0.70052
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Island Cottage is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed building that has been refaced with red brick on the ground floor and is hung with curved tiles above. It features a hipped tiled roof with pentice to both the east and west sides, along with two hipped dormers. The cottage has three casement windows.
Local climate
Island Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1995
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- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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