Church Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1966. Workhouse, house.
Church Cottages
- WRENN ID
- knotted-bonework-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1966
- Type
- Workhouse, house
- Address
- Church Cottages, 1-5, the Street, Newington
- OS grid reference
- TR 182 374
- Coordinates
- 51.09441, 1.11589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottages is a row of houses that was originally a workhouse, built in the late 18th century or early 19th century. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with the first floor of the rear wall covered in tiles. It features a plain tile roof and has a double-depth design with two storeys. The eaves cornice is dentilled in brick.
At the center of the front is a two-storey canted brick bay topped with a plain tile roof, and the cornice wraps around it. There are four brick ridge stacks, one at each end and one on each side of the central bay. The front has a regular arrangement of five windows, consisting of 2-light multi-paned casements, with two on each side and one in the center of the bay. Each canted side of the bay has a blocked window. The ground-floor windows have segmental heads.
The door to No. 3 is boarded and has a segmental head, located behind a later brick porch with a round-headed outer opening. There is a similar door and porch for No. 5 at the left gable end. No. 1 features a half-glazed door in a single-storey addition to the right gable end, while Nos. 2 and 4 have rear doors. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Church Cottages receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
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