Bleak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
Bleak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-gateway-indigo
- 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
- House, shop
- Address
- Bleak Cottage, 15, High Street, Wingham
- OS grid reference
- TR 243 572
- Coordinates
- 51.27045, 1.21439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bleak Cottage is a house that was once a shop, dating from the early 19th century. It has a painted brick exterior and a slate roof. The building stands two storeys high and features a moulded eaves cornice beneath a half-hipped roof, with a stack located at the rear left. On the first floor, there are two margin light glazing bar sash windows, while the ground floor has a range of wooden casements set within a pilastered surround that includes a cornice. This area was originally designed for a door and shop windows. To the right, there is a half-glazed door framed by an elliptical surround, which is complemented by a rectangular fanlight and glazed sidelights. The glazing is similar to that found in the workshops behind the adjoining Bleak House. The cottage is included in the listing for its group value.
Local climate
Bleak Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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