Bushy Ruff Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1973. Cottages. 3 related planning applications.

Bushy Ruff Cottages

WRENN ID
rooted-lancet-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1973
Type
Cottages
Address
Bushy Ruff Cottages, 1-6, Alkham Road, River, CT16 3EE
OS grid reference
TR 285 436
Coordinates
51.14688, 1.26631
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 1 to 6, Bushy Ruff Cottages, are a group of early 19th-century buildings on Alkham Road. The first five cottages are two storeys with a basement and attics, constructed with a flint facade and red brick quoins and window dressings. They have an old tiled roof with five hipped dormers and three chimneystacks. The windows are sash windows with intact glazing bars and cambered heads, with wooden sills. A brick string course runs along the front. The simple doorcases have cambered arches. No. 1 features a later wooden, pedimented weatherhood. No. 6 is a later 19th-century extension, again flint-faced, with a gable end featuring bargeboards and a finial. It has cambered casement windows, with some blank openings on the side elevation. The front elevation of No. 6 has a pedimented weatherhood with a slate roof and bargeboards.

Local climate

Bushy Ruff Cottages 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 10 transactions since 1996
  • 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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