Chestnut Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1973. Cottages.
Chestnut Cottages
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-rampart-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1973
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Chestnut Cottages, 1-3, Church Road, Lydd
- OS grid reference
- TR 043 210
- Coordinates
- 50.95229, 0.90752
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut Cottages, located on Church Road, are a row of three mid-19th century cottages. They are two storeys tall, with the ground floor painted and the first floor covered in weatherboarding. The cottages feature a hipped tiled roof and three sash windows, which are set in wooden architraves that have verticals only. The doorcases are simple, with Nos 1 and 2 having a double doorcase that includes simple wooden weatherboards supported by brackets. These cottages are recognized as a Grade II group.
Local climate
Chestnut 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
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