Garden Walls to Watergate House and Watergate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Garden wall.
Garden Walls to Watergate House and Watergate Cottage
- WRENN ID
- second-alcove-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Garden Walls to Watergate House and Watergate Cottage, King Street, Fordwich, CT2 0DB
- OS grid reference
- TR 180 598
- Coordinates
- 51.29565, 1.12608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls to Watergate House and Watergate Cottage are a mix of 19th century red brick and medieval flints combined with square ashlar. These walls were likely constructed by the Bailiffs of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury. They include a water-gate that leads to the River Stour to the north.
Local climate
Garden Walls to Watergate House and Watergate 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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