Crutches Gate Cottage and Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1975. Cottage, farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Crutches Gate Cottage and Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- unlit-chancel-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1975
- Type
- Cottage, farmhouse
- Address
- Crutches Gate Cottage and Farmhouse, Old Watling Street, Higham, ME2 3UG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 707 695
- Coordinates
- 51.39941, 0.45323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crutches Gate Cottage and Farmhouse is an 18th-century building that has been subdivided. It is constructed of red brick with grey brick headers, and has a tiled roof with one half hip. The building is two storeys high, with two- and three-light casement windows containing glazing bars. Segmental arches are above the ground-floor windows, with projecting brick courses above them. There are attic windows in the gable ends. A central brick chimney stack is present.
Local climate
Crutches Gate Cottage and Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 3 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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