Great Ruckinge Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1976. Residential.
Great Ruckinge Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-bracket-rush
- 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
- Residential
- Address
- Great Ruckinge Farm Cottage, Thornden Wood Road
- OS grid reference
- TR 153 655
- Coordinates
- 51.34819, 1.09076
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Ruckinge Farm Cottage is an 18th-century L-shaped building that stands two storeys tall. The ground floor is plastered, while the first floor is weatherboarded, topped with an old tiled roof. The cottage features two casement windows and modern three-light canted bay windows on the ground floor, along with a flat weather hood supported by brackets.
Local climate
Great Ruckinge Farm 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
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- 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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