Lion Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Lion Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-zinc-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lion Cottage, the Street, Bekesbourne-With-Patrixbourne, CT4 5DA
- OS grid reference
- TR 189 553
- Coordinates
- 51.2551, 1.13613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lion Cottage is a mid-19th century pair of cottages located on The Street in Bekesbourne. The building is two storeys high, with a ground floor made of red brick and a first floor that is timber-framed and plastered. It features a tiled roof topped with a large brick chimneystack. The gable ends are adorned with fretted bargeboards, which are supported by carved lions on one side and carved elephants on the other. The decorative curved framing adds to the architectural interest. The front elevation includes two five-light windows and two double-light casements on the ground floor, each with moulded panels above. The doorways are framed by cambered doorcases. These cottages were part of the Bifrons estate.
Local climate
Lion 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 — 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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