Willow Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Cottage.
Willow Cottages
- WRENN ID
- hidden-rafter-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Willow Cottages, 1 and 2, Harbledown and Rough Common
- OS grid reference
- TR 117 582
- Coordinates
- 51.28418, 1.03554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Cottages, dating from the 18th century, are a pair of two-storey cottages with attics. They are constructed of red brick featuring grey headers and have an old tiled roof that includes one gabled dormer. The roof slopes down to the ground floor at the rear. The cottages have four casement windows, with a tripartite arrangement on the rear elevation, and two simple doorcases.
Local climate
Willow Cottages 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 lower than that of 59% 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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