Long Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Cottage.

Long Cottage

WRENN ID
peeling-porch-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Long Cottage, Bossingham Street, Upper Hardres
OS grid reference
TR 150 489
Coordinates
51.19935, 1.07723
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Long Cottage is a 18th-century building located on the east side of Bossingham Street. The central portion is two storeys high with attics and is constructed of red brick. It features three casement windows with shutters. To the right, there is a two-storey timber-framed section, likely also from the 18th century, which has a half-hipped tiled roof. The left side of the cottage is another two-storey red brick section that includes one sash window with intact glazing bars. The entrance has a simple doorcase.

Local climate

Long Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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