Cumberland Cottage Pear Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1967. Cottage, former inn. 2 related planning applications.
Cumberland Cottage Pear Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grey-chamber-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1967
- Type
- Cottage, former inn
- Address
- Cumberland Cottage Pear Tree Cottage, Church Hill, Harbledown and Rough Common, CT2 9AF
- OS grid reference
- TR 129 582
- Coordinates
- 51.28348, 1.05242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cumberland Cottage and Pear Tree Cottage, formerly known as the Duke of Cumberland Inn, date from the 18th century. The building is two storeys high with attics and is constructed of red brick featuring some grey headers. It has a hipped tiled roof with two dormers on Pear Tree Cottage. A stringcourse runs along the building. There are six windows in total: the first floor has casement windows, while the ground floor features sashes with intact glazing bars. Cumberland Cottage has a simple cambered doorcase on its side elevation, although the doorcase for Pear Tree Cottage is not visible from the street.
Local climate
Cumberland Cottage Pear Tree 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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