Martin's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1972. House. 2 related planning applications.
Martin's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-garret-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Martin's Cottage, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, TN30 7NG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 893 300
- Coordinates
- 51.03886, 0.69899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Martin's Cottage is a building dating from the 18th century or earlier, located on the west side of Smallhythe Road. It is two storeys high with an attic and features a timber-framed structure. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, while the first floor is tile hung. The roof is covered with old tiles and has a moulded eaves cornice. There are two renewed casement windows and an outside chimney stack. The entrance includes a simple wooden doorcase with a four-panelled door and a flat wooden hood.
Local climate
Martin's 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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