Colonial Cottage Sunnyside is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1976. Cottage.
Colonial Cottage Sunnyside
- WRENN ID
- last-chamber-weasel
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Colonial Cottage Sunnyside, Herne Street, Herne and Broomfield
- OS grid reference
- TR 182 659
- Coordinates
- 51.35027, 1.13348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Colonial Cottage and Sunnyside are two-storey buildings likely dating from the 17th century, now featuring pebble-dashed exteriors. They have a steeply pitched tiled roof that is half-hipped on the right side. Sunnyside includes a casement window on the first floor and a ground floor sash window with intact glazing bars. Colonial Cottage has sash windows without glazing bars. Both buildings have simple doorcases topped with flat hoods. Colonial Cottage and Sunnyside are part of a group that includes Globe Cottage and Chestnut Cottage.
Local climate
Colonial Cottage Sunnyside 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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