Fair Oak the Olde Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1987. Cottage.
Fair Oak the Olde Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-clay-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fair Oak the Olde Cottage, the Street, Northbourne
- OS grid reference
- TR 334 521
- Coordinates
- 51.22091, 1.34188
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Olde Cottage and Fair Oak is a pair of cottages located on the south side of The Street in Northbourne, dating from the early 18th century, with one section dated 1735 and an extension added around 1880. The cottages are constructed of painted brick and feature a thatched roof. They are one storey high with an attic, set on a plinth, and the right-hand cottage has a plat band. The roof has three raking dormers and stacks positioned at the left end and paired at the centre right, with the ridge line stepping down towards the right.
The left cottage has two segmentally headed glazing bar sash windows with shutters, while the right cottage features one sash window and boarded doors to the left, which are topped with a flat hood and a datestone inscribed with "P." To the right, there is a trellised gable. Additionally, there is a weathered garage extension dated 1735 to the right. The Olde Cottage also includes a two-storey section at the rear, built of brown brick with a slate roof, which is dated 1880.
Local climate
Fair Oak the Olde 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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