Myrtle Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1976. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Myrtle Cottages
- WRENN ID
- roaming-paling-tallow
- 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
- Cottages
- Address
- Myrtle Cottages, 3 and 5, School Lane, Herne and Broomfield, CT6 7AN
- OS grid reference
- TR 182 659
- Coordinates
- 51.35053, 1.13353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Myrtle Cottages is a pair of 18th century cottages located on the north side of School Lane in Herne. They are two storeys high with attics and constructed from red brick. The cottages feature a hipped tiled roof, each with one dormer. There are three windows in total; the center window on the first floor is a casement, while the other two are sashes with intact glazing bars. The ground floor windows are also casements. Nos 1 to 15 (odd) form a group.
Local climate
Myrtle Cottages 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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