Wayside Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. A C18 House.
Wayside Cottages
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-truss-heath
- 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
- Address
- Wayside Cottages, 1 and 2, the Street, Preston
- OS grid reference
- TR 250 610
- Coordinates
- 51.30431, 1.22759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wayside Cottages is a building that dates back to the 18th century and has been converted into two cottages. It is constructed of red brick and features a plain tiled roof, with a pantiled rear wing. The structure stands two storeys high on a plinth and has a brick eaves cornice beneath a hipped roof, which has stacks on the left side and projects at the right end.
On the first floor, there are two wooden casements and two small central metal casements. The ground floor has three segmental-headed wooden casements. To the right, there is a boarded door, while a doorway on the left has been blocked. At the rear, there is a catslide outshot and a projecting rear wing that includes a rear stack.
Local climate
Wayside 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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