The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1976. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
grim-zinc-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1976
Type
Cottage
Address
The Cottage, Underdown Lane, CT6 5UD
OS grid reference
TR 178 669
Coordinates
51.3601, 1.12794
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is a mid-19th century building located on Underdown Lane in Eddington. It is two storeys tall and constructed of painted brick with a hipped slate roof. The facade features three cambered sash windows with intact glazing bars and Venetian shutters, along with one altered window and a modern porch. The Cottage is part of a group of buildings at Underdown House.

Local climate

The Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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