Virginia Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1973. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Virginia Cottages
- WRENN ID
- riven-rubble-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1973
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Virginia Cottages, 1 and 2, Rome Road, New Romney, TN28 8DN
- OS grid reference
- TR 063 248
- Coordinates
- 50.98576, 0.93819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Virginia Cottages, located at 1 and 2 Rome Road, are early 19th-century buildings. They are two storeys high, with a stuccoed front elevation and a brick side elevation. The cottages feature a half-hipped tiled roof and have two sash windows with verticals only. The doorcases are adorned with flat stone cornices and console brackets, and each cottage has a four-panelled door, with the top two panels cut away and glazed.
Local climate
Virginia Cottages receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1999
- 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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