Bifrons Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. A C19 Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Bifrons Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ghost-flint-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bifrons Cottage, the Street, Bekesbourne-With-Patrixbourne, CT4 5DA
- OS grid reference
- TR 188 553
- Coordinates
- 51.25535, 1.13537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bifrons Cottage is likely the dower house associated with the now-demolished Bifrons mansion. It was built or altered in the mid to late 19th century, as part of a group of ornamental cottages within the estate village. The cottage is larger than the others in the village. The north-east front has a distinctive half-H shape. It features a tiled roof with grouped chimney stacks. The main part of the building is two storeys high and constructed of painted brick, while the wings have a roughcast finish to the first floor. There are three gables, each with casement windows and scalloped bargeboards. The first floor of the wings projects and is supported by elaborate carved columns. A small bay window on the ground floor is centrally located, containing the front door and flanking windows. The north-west front is higher and features a single window beneath a gable with scalloped bargeboards and a coronet displaying the date 1870. A three-tiered bay window with five lights on each tier extends across the ground and first floors of this front, with a small gabled porch situated to the north-east of the bay.
Local climate
Bifrons 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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