Chain Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1987. Cottage.

Chain Cottages

WRENN ID
scattered-quartz-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 April 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Chain Cottages, 1 and 2, Front Street, Ringwould with Kingsdown
OS grid reference
TR 359 482
Coordinates
51.18485, 1.37482
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chain Cottages is a pair of cottages dating from the early and late 18th century. They are constructed of red brick and flint, with an extension featuring a tile-hung wing and a plain tiled roof. No. 1, located on the right, has two storeys set on a flint plinth, with brick corbelled eaves leading to the roof, which has a stack at the end right. It features two sash windows on each floor and a central wooden casement in a blocked doorway. The current entrance is located on the right return in a buff brick outshot with a slate roof. No. 2, on the left, is a taller two-storey structure that is tile-hung, with stacks at both the end left and end right. It has one glazing bar sash window on each floor and a boarded door to the right.

Local climate

Chain 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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