Grafton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1949. A C19 Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Grafton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- woven-vault-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1949
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Grafton Cottage, Sandgate Esplanade, CT20 3DP
- OS grid reference
- TR 196 350
- Coordinates
- 51.07236, 1.13347
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grafton Cottage is an early 19th-century building situated on Sandgate Esplanade. It is a two-storey and basement structure, with the street frontage weatherboarded above a stuccoed base. The roof is slate, hipped, and features a modillion eaves cornice. The original three sash windows retain their glazing bars and are fitted with Venetian shutters. A trellised wooden porch with a pointed canopy sits fifteen steps up from the level ground and includes a handrail. A rectangular fanlight is above the main doorway. The left side elevation incorporates an additional wooden doorcase with a pedimented head, paterae, and reeded pilasters. A garage connects the property to Regency Cottage, and has a room built above. Grafton Cottage forms a group with Regency Cottage and numbers 1 to 10 Wellington Terrace, recognising the local interest of the latter buildings.
Local climate
Grafton Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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