Cage Lane Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. A C18 Cottage.

Cage Lane Cottage

WRENN ID
slow-oriel-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Cage Lane Cottage, Smarden
OS grid reference
TQ 880 422
Coordinates
51.1489, 0.68691
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cage Lane Cottage is an 18th-century building that is part one storey and part two storeys. It features weatherboarding and a tiled roof, with casement windows. There is an outshut at the rear of the cottage.

Local climate

Cage Lane 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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