Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Cottage. 21 related planning applications.
Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-wall-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rectory Cottage, Church Lane, Kingston, CT4 6HY
- OS grid reference
- TR 198 513
- Coordinates
- 51.219, 1.14675
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rectory Cottage is a mid-19th century cottage built in the Gothic style. It is constructed of knapped flint with red brick dressings, and features a hipped tile roof. The building has red brick rusticated quoins, an eaves cornice, and rusticated surrounds to the windows and door. It has two windows on each floor, with brick rectangular dripmoulds. The windows are hung sashes with glazing bars, with the upper lights featuring Gothic glazing bars. The doorway on the right has a similar dripmould and a flat hood supported on carved brackets. It has a half-glazed door and brick steps.
Local climate
Rectory Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 21 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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