The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1976. House.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
gentle-screen-birch
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 Cottage, 21, Avenue Road
OS grid reference
TR 172 681
Coordinates
51.37085, 1.11949
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is a mid-19th century building located on Avenue Road in Herne Bay. It is two storeys high and features a pseudo timber-framed design with a quatrefoil pattern and painted brick infill. The roof is tiled, combining both plain and curved tiles, and includes one hipped dormer. The side elevation showcases two gables adorned with carved bargeboards and a finial. The building has three casement windows and a hipped porch.

Local climate

The 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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