Wheatsheaf Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dartford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1982. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Wheatsheaf Cottage
- WRENN ID
- nether-pillar-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartford
- Constituency
- Dartford MP: Jim Dickson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wheatsheaf Cottage, Highcross Road, Southfleet, DA13 9PH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 599 703
- Coordinates
- 51.40965, 0.29848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wheatsheaf Cottage is a timber-framed building dating from the 15th to 16th century, faced with plaster and featuring a hipped thatched roof. It has sliding casement windows. The east end of the cottage is two storeys high, with one window and a jettied first floor on its south front. The rest of the building is one storey, with two windows and a doorway that has a thatched hood above it.
Local climate
Wheatsheaf Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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