Gambia Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1984. House.
Gambia Cottages
- WRENN ID
- salt-sill-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gambia Cottages, 1 and 2, Upper Street, Leeds
- OS grid reference
- TQ 819 528
- Coordinates
- 51.2455, 0.60619
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gambia Cottages is a row of houses dating from the early 19th century, with No. 2 formerly serving as a shop and now functioning as a house. The cottages are timber-framed and weatherboarded, topped with a plain tile roof. They are double depth and feature two storeys set on a stone plinth, with a hipped roof that has hips returning around the side elevations. There are two red brick stacks at the rear. The front has a regular arrangement of windows, with two glazing-bar sashes on the upper floor and those on the ground floor having shallow board hoods above. On either side, there are single-storey weatherboarded lean-tos with plain tiles, slightly recessed from the main elevation and built on brick plinths. The entrance to No. 2 is a boarded door located at the left end, topped with a shallow flat hood supported by small shaped brackets. No. 1 features 20th-century glazed double doors in the lean-to on the right, both entrances accessed by three steps. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
Gambia Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
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