The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-hearth-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, the Street, Little Chart
- OS grid reference
- TQ 943 460
- Coordinates
- 51.18096, 0.77941
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th-century building located in Little Chart. It has two storeys and an attic with a gable end. The structure is made of red brick and features a tiled roof with a shaped Dutch gable end on the south side. There are three casement windows with round-headed lights, locally known as Dering windows, which were added to cottages and farms belonging to the Surrenden Dering estate in the nearby parish of Pluckley, likely by Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering, the 8th Baronet, who owned the estate from 1811 to 1896. The ground floor windows are adorned with brick architraves and keystones. The entrance has a doorcase with a flat hood supported by scroll brackets.
Local climate
The 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 lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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