The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
last-chamber-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
The Cottage, Station Road, Bekesbourne, Bekesbourne-With-Patrixbourne, CT4 5DN
OS grid reference
TR 189 555
Coordinates
51.25711, 1.13663
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is a building dated 1707, although it was remodeled in the mid-19th century. It is a one-storey structure with attics, constructed of red brick featuring grey headers. The roof is tiled and includes a brick chimneystack along with two gabled dormers. The building has fretted bargeboards that are supported by wooden grotesque figures. On the ground floor, there are two three-light casement windows, and a gabled weather porch is also present. This cottage is part of the Bifrons estate.

Local climate

The 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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