Smugglers Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 20 related planning applications.
Smugglers Cottages
- WRENN ID
- plain-pewter-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Smugglers Cottages, 1-4, Herne Street, Herne and Broomfield, CT6 7HJ
- OS grid reference
- TR 182 659
- Coordinates
- 51.35033, 1.13308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The four Smugglers Cottages, numbered 1 to 4, form a curved group with a rounded corner. Numbers 1 and 2 date from the 16th century and are timber-framed. The first floor of number 1 overhangs on curved brackets. The ground floor of number 1 is now roughcast, while number 2 has a brick facade with two late 18th or early 19th century curved shop windows retaining their glazing bars. The first floor of number 2 has four sliding sash windows. Numbers 3 and 4 are likely 17th century and are built of brick with a stringcourse. They feature modern casement windows. The cottages have tiled roofs and a brick chimneystack positioned between numbers 2 and 3. Numbers 1 and 2 contain inglenook fireplaces. A plaque identifying the cottages as a 'Historic Building of Kent' is present. The Smugglers Cottages are understood to form a group with Globe Cottage and Chestnut Cottage.
Local climate
Smugglers 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 20 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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