Ladydown Farmhouse Laydown Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Ladydown Farmhouse Laydown Cottages

WRENN ID
sacred-spandrel-spindle
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
Farmhouse
Address
Ladydown Farmhouse Laydown Cottages, 1 and 2, Longmete Road, Preston, CT3 1DN
OS grid reference
TR 253 603
Coordinates
51.2976, 1.23057
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ladydown Farmhouse and the attached Laydown Cottages date from the early 19th century. The buildings are constructed of red brick with a slate roof, while the oast features a corrugated iron roof. They stand two storeys high with an attic and have a gambrel roof. The farmhouse has three flat-roofed dormers and chimney stacks on both sides. The windows are regularly arranged, featuring three glazing bar sashes on the first floor and two on the ground floor, all with gauged heads. A central later 19th-century gabled porch contains a glazed door. To the left, there is a disused cast store that is two storeys tall, displaying irregular fenestration with wooden casements and glazing bar sashes, and a half-glazed door to the right within a glazed porch. There is also a truncated roundel at the left end, which has a wooden casement and glazing bar sashes. This is an unusually designed unit.

Local climate

Ladydown Farmhouse Laydown Cottages 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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