Stray Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.

Stray Cottages

WRENN ID
stony-turret-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swale
Constituency
Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP: Kevin McKenna (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 November 1984
Type
House
Address
Stray Cottages, 1-2, Sheerness Road, Lower Halstow, ME9 7EB
OS grid reference
TQ 863 674
Coordinates
51.37518, 0.67668
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Stray Cottages is a pair of houses that were originally built in the 16th century, with additions made in the 18th century. The cottages have a timber frame that is exposed, featuring plaster infill on the ground floor and weatherboard cladding on the first floor, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building follows a lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a continuous jettied first floor supported by carved consoles and a decorated bresummer. The roof is hipped with gablets and has a central right stack.

On the first floor, there are two wooden casement windows and a stair light. The ground floor features two wooden casements on the left, along with blocked mullioned side lights. A panelled plank and stud door is located to the centre right, framed by a moulded surround. To the left, there is an 18th-century painted brick wing that projects and has a return hipped roof, complete with a stack. Additionally, there is a jettied wing, which may date back to before the 16th century, located at the left return front.

Local climate

Stray 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 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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