Dolly Plum Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Dolly Plum Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waning-mortar-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dolly Plum Cottage, Ashford Road, Brenzett, TN29 0BQ
- OS grid reference
- TR 006 277
- Coordinates
- 51.01434, 0.85916
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dolly Plum Cottage is a late 18th-century house located on Ashford Road in Brenzett. The building is rendered and features a plain tile roof. It has one storey and an attic, with a gambrel roof that is half-hipped on the left side. There is a brick ridge stack positioned off-centre to the left and another at the right gable end. The cottage has three gabled dormers with plain bargeboards. The windows are arranged irregularly, consisting of three two-light casements and two fixed lights, with a doorway to the right that has H-L hinges. The boarded door slightly breaks the eaves and is positioned off-centre to the right, while there is a blocked door at the left end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Dolly Plum Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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