Pound Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
Pound Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dark-thatch-honey
- 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
- Pound Cottage, 47, Seabrook Road, CT21 5QB
- OS grid reference
- TR 170 348
- Coordinates
- 51.07203, 1.09662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pound Cottage is an early 19th-century building located on Seabrook Road. It is two storeys tall and constructed of stone rubble, featuring red brick dressings and quoins. The roof is hipped and tiled, with an eaves cornice. The cottage has three sash windows that retain their glazing bars. The doorcase includes a rectangular fanlight and wooden brackets, although these are now concealed beneath a modern porch.
Local climate
Pound 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- 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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