The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1976. House.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- over-bonework-peregrine
- 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
- The Old Cottage, 125, Grand Drive
- OS grid reference
- TR 160 679
- Coordinates
- 51.36923, 1.1025
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a building from the 17th century or earlier, featuring two storeys with painted brick and an old tiled roof that has two hips. It has three modern casement windows and a rainwater head dated 1600. On the left side, there is a modern hipped tiled weather hood. A Historic Building of Kent plaque is displayed on the property. At the north end, there is a modern projecting section on the first floor, which is supported by a row of round red brick columns.
Local climate
The Old 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
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- 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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