Clare Cottage the Nook the Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1986. Cottage pair.

Clare Cottage the Nook the Old Post Office

WRENN ID
carved-banister-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 December 1986
Type
Cottage pair
Address
Clare Cottage the Nook the Old Post Office, the Forstal, Eythorne
OS grid reference
TR 283 490
Coordinates
51.19536, 1.2668
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Clare Cottage, The Old Post Office, and The Nook are a pair of cottages located on the south side of The Forstal in Eythorne. They date from the 18th century and were altered in the late 19th century. The cottages are constructed of red brick, with some areas painted and others rendered, featuring applied timbering. They have a combination of plain tiled and slate roofs.

The buildings are two storeys high, with a brick eaves cornice on the left and a wooden eaves cornice on the right, along with a central stack. The windows are arranged irregularly, with one sash window and three glazing bar sashes on the first floor, and one sash window and two glazing bar sashes on the ground floor. The entrance on the centre right has a six-panel door, with the top two panels glazed and topped by a pediment supported by pilasters. There is also a glazed door to the centre left and a glazed gabled shop front at the far left. The cottages are included for their group value. The east part of The Nook is noted as not being of special interest.

Local climate

Clare Cottage the Nook the Old Post Office receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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