Gartley Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dartford local planning authority area, England. Almshouses. 7 related planning applications.

Gartley Cottages

WRENN ID
rusted-nave-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartford
Constituency
Dartford MP: Jim Dickson (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Almshouses
Address
Gartley Cottages, 38-52, Dartford Road, DA1 3ER
OS grid reference
TQ 530 743
Coordinates
51.44733, 0.20078
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gartley Cottages, built in 1841, is a range of nine charity almshouses located on Dartford Road. The cottages are two storeys high and constructed from stock brick, topped with a slate roof. The central cottage features a pedimented gable adorned with a brick modillion cornice and a circular datestone marking its name and date. It has two sashes with intact glazing bars. Each end cottage also has a pedimented gable, while the remaining cottages each have one sash with glazing bars intact and simple round-headed doorcases. Nos 38 to 52 (even) form a cohesive group.

Local climate

Gartley Cottages 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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