Luckett Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1963. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Luckett Cottages
- WRENN ID
- winding-tracery-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1963
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Luckett Cottages, 1 and 2, the Street, Preston, CT3 1DY
- OS grid reference
- TR 250 608
- Coordinates
- 51.30227, 1.22707
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Luckett Cottages is a pair of cottages that were originally built as a house in the 17th century. They are constructed of red brick in English bond, with the return elevations finished in rough cast, and feature a plain tiled roof. The building has a lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a plat band and a roof that is hipped to the left. The chimney stacks are positioned at the right end and clustered to the left.
The front facade includes three wooden casement windows with three lights, along with a smaller window to the left, and three wooden casement windows with two lights on the ground floor. There is a four-panel door located to the left. At the rear, there is a catslide outshot.
Local climate
Luckett Cottages 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 greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2006
- 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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