Amoy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1975. A Victorian Villa.
Amoy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ancient-basalt-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1975
- Type
- Villa
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Amoy Cottage, 17, Old Road East
- OS grid reference
- TQ 649 730
- Coordinates
- 51.4325, 0.37092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Amoy Cottage is a mid-19th century villa, dated 1854, located on Old Road East. The building has two storeys and is finished in stucco. It features long and short quoins and a slate roof. The right side gable has curved, fretted bargeboards, a pendant, and a finial, while the left side has a gablet with similar bargeboarding. The front has two sash windows with hood moulding but no glazing bars. On the ground floor, there is a three-light bay window that is crenellated above. The entrance is sheltered by a gabled weather porch, which also has fretted bargeboards, a pendant, and finials. To the right, there is a two-storey extension.
Local climate
Amoy Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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