Botfield Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1973. House.
Botfield Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eternal-floor-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Botfield Cottage, 13 and 15, Church Hill
- OS grid reference
- TR 160 348
- Coordinates
- 51.07219, 1.0833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Botfield Cottage is a late 18th century to early 19th century building located on Church Hill. It is two storeys high with a basement, constructed of painted brick and topped with an old tiled roof. The cottage features two sash windows with intact glazing bars. In the centre, there is a round-headed doorcase that originally had a fanlight, which has since been filled in, and it contains an eight-panelled door. Botfield Cottage is part of a group that includes Nos 5 to 9 (odd) and Nos 13 to 17 (odd), along with Nos 1 and 2 (Centuries) on Barthlomew Street.
Local climate
Botfield Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
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- 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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