Little Swarling is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. A Early Modern Cottage.
Little Swarling
- WRENN ID
- sheer-gable-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Little Swarling, Watery Lane, Petham
- OS grid reference
- TR 131 526
- Coordinates
- 51.23314, 1.05123
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Swarling is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed cottage located on Watery Lane. The cottage features red brick infilling and has a north front that is faced with tarred weatherboarding. It stands two storeys high with a gable end facing north. The first floor of the south front extends over a small bay on the ground floor below it. The roof is tiled, with a pertice on the east side and a red brick chimneystack on the west, while the south end is hipped. The cottage has two casement windows and a simple doorcase.
Local climate
Little Swarling receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 1 transaction since 2004
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- Radon risk assessment
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