Leigh Leigh Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. A Georgian House.
Leigh Leigh Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-facade-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Leigh Leigh Cottage, 36, Bekesbourne Lane, Littlebourne, CT3 1UY
- OS grid reference
- TR 209 572
- Coordinates
- 51.27187, 1.16594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leigh Cottage, dating from the 18th century, is a two-storey building constructed of painted brick with a tiled roof. The facade features two tripartite sash windows, with the ground floor windows set in cambered architraves. There is a simple cambered doorcase. This building is included for its group value with the adjacent property, No. 36 (Leigh).
Local climate
Leigh Leigh 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
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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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