The Old Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House.
The Old Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- haunted-steel-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Thatched Cottage, Cellar Hill, Lynsted with Kingsdown
- OS grid reference
- TQ 954 619
- Coordinates
- 51.32296, 0.80304
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Thatched Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. The building stands two storeys high on a plinth and features a continuous jetty supported by brackets. The roof is hipped with a central stack. On the first floor, there are three wooden casement windows, and on the ground floor, there are two wooden casement windows along with a plank and muntin door located to the centre right.
Local climate
The Old Thatched Cottage 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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