Tavern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1949. Cottage.
Tavern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-string-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1949
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tavern Cottage, 8, Westgate Grove, CT2 8AA
- OS grid reference
- TR 145 580
- Coordinates
- 51.2815, 1.07508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tavern Cottage, originally part of the old Cock Inn, is a 16th-century timber-framed building located at 8 Westgate Grove. It is three storeys high and has a plastered exterior with a tiled roof and gable front, featuring an overhang. The second floor has a restored casement window, while the first floor showcases a three-light mullioned and transomed bay. The ground floor includes a modern door. Tavern Cottage is part of a group that includes Nos 2 to 14 (even).
Local climate
Tavern 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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