Coastguard Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1974. Row of houses. 6 related planning applications.

Coastguard Cottages

WRENN ID
fallow-pediment-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 March 1974
Type
Row of houses
Address
Coastguard Cottages, 1-9, St. Margaret's at Cliffe, CT15 6DU
OS grid reference
TR 364 443
Coordinates
51.14973, 1.37978
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Coastguard Cottages, now a private row of houses, were built in 1884. The cottages are roughcast with slate roofs, and the south end elevation is finished in corrugated sheet cladding. The main range is two storeys high, featuring pilaster quoins, brick corbelled eaves, and two gables that break the eaves line. There are three large square chimney stacks arranged from left to right. The front has seven two-light mullioned windows, with the two central windows raised in the gables and anchor motifs above them. On the ground floor, there are six mullioned windows and panelled doors located in gabled porches on either side. A moulded semi-circular arch in the centre leads to a rear courtyard, which has a datestone from 1884 above it. The cottages are linked to a D-shaped block on the right by a slate and wood porch or bridge. This three-storey block has a semi-circular end that projects forward, featuring three, four, and two-light mullioned windows on the front, with irregular fenestration on the rear.

Local climate

Coastguard 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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