Idle Dyke Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1976. House.
Idle Dyke Cottage
- WRENN ID
- western-belfry-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Idle Dyke Cottage, Ash
- OS grid reference
- TR 274 615
- Coordinates
- 51.30769, 1.26152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Idle Dyke Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century. It is possibly timber framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof. The building has one storey and an attic, featuring a half-hipped roof, a raking dormer, and a stack on the right side. The front includes a central glazing bar sash window, two wooden casements to the right, and a ribbed door to the left. There is also a single-storey brick extension on the right, which has one wooden casement window.
Local climate
Idle Dyke Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% 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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