Watercress Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Watercress Cottages
- WRENN ID
- slow-attic-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Watercress Cottages, Watercress Lane, Wingham
- OS grid reference
- TR 236 566
- Coordinates
- 51.26511, 1.20446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Watercress Cottages is a pair of cottages dating to the 17th century. The cottages are rendered and have a plain tiled roof. The building has an L-shape, suggesting at least two phases of construction. They stand on a plinth with a plat band marking the line of the gabled roof. Stacks are located at the rear left, projecting and offset to the left, and with a stepped roofline rising to the right, terminating in a stack at the end right. There is one wooden casement window on each floor to the left, and one to each floor to the right. A glazed porch with a half-glazed door is centrally positioned, and another glazed door sits within a raking porch to the right. The left return has two horizontally sliding sash windows, and two wooden casements, along with a horizontally sliding sash on the ground floor.
Local climate
Watercress 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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