Fourdoun Cottage Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1975. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.
Fourdoun Cottage Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-facade-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1975
- Type
- House
- Period
- C18
- Address
- Fourdoun Cottage Oak Cottage, King Street, Fordwich
- OS grid reference
- TR 180 597
- Coordinates
- 51.2951, 1.12562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fourdoun Cottage and Oak Cottage, originally listed as River House and Fordwich Cottage, are a timber-framed house, likely a hall house, that was refronted in the 18th century. The building is two storeys high and constructed of red brick with a hipped tiled roof, featuring a dentil eaves cornice. It has five windows, all hung sashes with glazing bars, and the ground floor windows are topped with segmental arches. The four doors, leading to Oak Cottage and Fourdoun Cottage, each have small hoods supported by brackets.
Local climate
Fourdoun Cottage Oak 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 — 7 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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