Unity Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1998. Cottages.

Unity Cottages

WRENN ID
inner-obsidian-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1998
Type
Cottages
Address
Unity Cottages, 79-85, Strand Street, Sandwich, CT13 9HP
OS grid reference
TR 328 584
Coordinates
51.27794, 1.33727
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Unity Cottages are a pair of cottages built around 1820, likely constructed as two pairs due to the central break in the brickwork. They are made of stock brick with rubbed brick voussoirs, have stuccoed plinths, tiled roofs, and brick chimneystacks. The cottages are two storeys high and feature four windows and four window spaces on the first floor, along with a modillion eaves cornice. The windows are sixteen-pane sashes with moulded architraves, cambered heads, and a reeded pattern on the ground floor windows. The round-headed doorcases have solid fanlights and moulded architraves, while the front doors are from the 20th century. A stuccoed plaque between the two central cottages displays the name "UNITY COTTAGES."

Local climate

Unity Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% 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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