Rentain Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1967. Cottage.
Rentain Cottage
- WRENN ID
- outer-quartz-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rentain Cottage, Rattington Street, Chartham
- OS grid reference
- TR 108 548
- Coordinates
- 51.25402, 1.02023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rentain Cottage, formerly known as Rentain Farmhouse, is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed building with plaster infilling. The ground floor has been rebuilt in brick. The cottage is two storeys high and features a steeply pitched hipped tiled roof. It has two casement windows and a simple doorcase. There is a modern extension on the left-hand side.
Local climate
Rentain Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% 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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