The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-forge-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Throwley, ME13 0JS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 993 536
- Coordinates
- 51.24715, 0.85471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a house dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a plain tiled roof. The building has a lobby entry plan and stands two storeys tall on a plinth, with a hipped roof and a central left chimney stack. On each floor, there are three wooden casement windows, and the entrance includes a ribbed door with a side light to the centre left.
Local climate
The Old 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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