Cliffe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1975. Cottage.
Cliffe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-rubblework-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cliffe Cottage, 6, the Riviera, Sandgate
- OS grid reference
- TR 209 352
- Coordinates
- 51.07389, 1.15252
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cottage. The north part dates to the mid-19th century, while the south part is likely from the late 18th or early 19th century. The north part is weatherboarded with a hipped slate roof and a brick chimneystack. It has two storeys and two windows, featuring casement windows. A central gabled projection displays a cambered blank space and the inscription "Cliffe Cottage." A late 18th or early 19th century doorcase features a pediment and panelled risers. The south part is also weatherboarded with a hipped tiled roof and a brick chimneystack. It is two storeys high with two windows. The right side has a 12-pane sash window, while the left side has a two-story mid-19th century five-light canted bay. A doorcase is adorned with a trellis-work porch.
Regarding Nos 1 and 2, the front part of No 1 is probably from the 18th century. It is two storeys high and weatherboarded, with a hipped slate roof and two casement windows. The ground floor features an 18th to early 19th century doorcase with a pediment and panelled risers. Behind No 2 is an 18th century portion, two storeys high and weatherboarded with a steeply pitched old tiled roof, half-hipped at one end. It has one sash window and one bay window extending through all floors, accompanied by a doorcase with a tent-shaped canopy. Nos 2 and 3 are three storeys high and weatherboarded with a steeply pitched old tiled roof half-hipped at one end.
Local climate
Cliffe Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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