Riverside Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1976. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

Riverside Cottages

WRENN ID
hollow-gateway-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 June 1976
Type
Cottage
Address
Riverside Cottages, 3 and 4, Old Palace Road, Bekesbourne-With-Patrixbourne, CT4 5BU
OS grid reference
TR 190 552
Coordinates
51.25393, 1.13804
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Riverside Cottages, Nos. 3 and 4, are a pair of late 18th-century cottages situated on Old Palace Road in Bekesbourne. The cottages consist of two parallel ranges, each two storeys high, and are weatherboarded. They have hipped slate roofs. Original sash windows with intact glazing bars are present. The doorways are simple. A lean-to extension has been added to No. 4.

Local climate

Riverside 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.

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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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