The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-rood-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Chapel Lane, Ripple
- OS grid reference
- TR 350 497
- Coordinates
- 51.19885, 1.36286
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of painted brick and features a plain tiled roof. The building has one storey and an attic, set on a plinth with a plat band and a kneelered parapet gable on the right, while the left side has a hip. There are two gabled dormers and chimney stacks on the left and at the right end. The front has three segmentally headed wooden casements and a blocked central doorway. To the left, there is a boarded four-centred arched door with a wooden casement in an outshot.
Local climate
The Cottage 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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