Belsey Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1976. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Belsey Cottage

WRENN ID
sheer-hall-acorn
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
Cottage
Address
Belsey Cottage, 7, School Lane, Herne and Broomfield, CT6 7AN
OS grid reference
TR 183 659
Coordinates
51.35061, 1.13368
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Belsey Cottage is an 18th-century building located on the north side of School Lane in Herne. It is constructed of brown brick with an old tiled roof featuring kneelers. The first floor has a double sash window with intact glazing bars, while the ground floor features a cambered sash window. A simple doorcase is also present. The cottage is part of a group of properties, numbers 1 to 15 (odd).

Local climate

Belsey 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.
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
  • 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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