Garden Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Garden Cottages
- WRENN ID
- turning-soffit-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Garden Cottages, Ickham and Well, CT3 1UR
- OS grid reference
- TR 212 568
- Coordinates
- 51.26772, 1.17069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden Cottages, dating circa 1860, were originally stables for the historic Lee Priory. Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, the cottages are built of red brick with a Welsh slate roof, punctuated by three gabled dormers. The design incorporates altered casement windows, a central pediment, and two round-headed carriage arches.
Local climate
Garden 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 greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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