Highbury Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Highbury Cottages
- WRENN ID
- little-ember-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Highbury Cottages, 34-42, King Street, CT1 2AJ
- OS grid reference
- TR 149 581
- Coordinates
- 51.28154, 1.08112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highbury Cottages are a terrace of six houses, numbered 34 to 42, built in 1856. They are constructed of red brick with old tiled roofs. Each house has a single cambered sash window on each floor, featuring intact glazing bars. The front doors have simple round-headed doorcases. Number 35 has been rendered with a pebble dash finish. The rear elevation is characterised by hipped roofs. Houses numbered 34 to 43 form a group.
Local climate
Highbury 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.
More on this building
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1997
- 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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