Grove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1986. House.
Grove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-spandrel-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grove Cottage, Grove Road, Selling
- OS grid reference
- TR 038 558
- Coordinates
- 51.265, 0.92072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with an 18th-century cladding. It features a timber frame that is covered with painted brick and has a plain tiled roof. The building has a three-bay lobby entry plan with a cross-wing. It stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a projecting hipped wing to the left and a stack positioned to the centre left. On the first floor, there is one wooden casement window on the wing and two on the main range. The ground floor has one segmental-headed three-light wooden casement window on each wing, along with a boarded door to the centre left and a blocked doorway to the left, both featuring segmental heads. The interior reveals the visible frame.
Local climate
Grove Cottage 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% 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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