Star Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1975. Cottage. 7 related planning applications.
Star Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-column-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Star Cottage, Bekesbourne Hill, Bekesbourne-With-Patrixbourne, CT4 5ED
- OS grid reference
- TR 189 561
- Coordinates
- 51.26242, 1.13675
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Star Cottage is a red-brick cottage dating to 1728. It is two storeys high, with an attic in the gable end. The roof is tiled, with a wooden modillion eaves cornice. The cottage has two casement windows. Above the doorcase are two stars inscribed "ICM 1728" and "North Pole Star."
Local climate
Star 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 — 18 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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