Railway Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Cottage. 18 related planning applications.
Railway Cottages
- WRENN ID
- plain-mortar-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Railway Cottages, 3 and 4, Railway Hill, Barham, CT4 6PY
- OS grid reference
- TR 204 494
- Coordinates
- 51.20175, 1.15379
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are two late 18th-century brick cottages with a tile roof and end stacks, originally located on Barham Deringstone Street but now situated on Railway Hill. The cottages are two storeys high with an attic space, featuring two hipped dormers. They have a dentil brick eaves cornice. The front elevation has two windows of three lights on each floor, set within segmental-headed reveals. There are also two doors, similarly situated in segmental-headed reveals.
Local climate
Railway Cottages receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 18 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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