Coachman's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. A C17 House.
Coachman's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- watchful-postern-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Coachman's Cottage, Alkham Valley Road
- OS grid reference
- TR 257 423
- Coordinates
- 51.13573, 1.22527
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coachman's Cottage is a 17th-century house located on the north side of Alkham Valley Road. It is constructed of painted rubble and brick, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building features a three-bay lobby entry plan and is one storey high, with the roof hipped to the left and half-hipped to the right. There are stacks on the left side and a projecting stack at the right end. The cottage has three wooden casements and a boarded door on the left side.
Local climate
Coachman's Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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