Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1976. A C18 House.

Walnut Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
slow-window-meadow
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
House
Address
Walnut Tree Cottage, Canterbury Road, Herne and Broomfield
OS grid reference
TR 174 650
Coordinates
51.34261, 1.12043
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree Cottage is a building from the 18th century or earlier, located on the southeast side of Canterbury Road in Herne Common. It is two storeys tall, constructed of red brick, with weatherboarding at the rear. The cottage features a thatched roof with one dormer and has two casement windows. A trellised wooden porch adds to its charm.

Local climate

Walnut Tree 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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