Thatched Cottage and Peg Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. A C18 Cottage. 8 related planning applications.
Thatched Cottage and Peg Cottage
- WRENN ID
- moated-thatch-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatched Cottage and Peg Cottage, Highstead, Chislet, CT3 4LX
- OS grid reference
- TR 214 662
- Coordinates
- 51.35186, 1.1785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century cottage, with an additional section dating to the early 19th century, located in Chislet, Highstead. The cottage is primarily red brick and has a tiled roof, with two modern dormers. Two 19th-century cambered casement windows and a cambered door surround are also present. Thatched Cottage, the earlier section, has a thatched roof with an eyebrow dormer. This part of the property is two storeys high, red brick, and contains two sash windows and a gabled porch.
Local climate
Thatched Cottage and Peg 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 greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 18 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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