The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1976. House.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muted-cobalt-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Sheldwich
- OS grid reference
- TR 014 560
- Coordinates
- 51.26787, 0.88601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a 17th-century house located in Sheldwich Lees. It features a timber frame that is exposed, with painted brick infill and weather-hoarded gables, topped by a plain tiled roof. The building has a four-framed bay lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high, with stacks positioned to the left and rear right. On the first floor, there are three wooden casements, while the ground floor has two casements and one in a shallow central two-storey brick bay window. To the left, there is a half-glazed door set in a gabled porch. Additionally, there is a single-storey extension to the left, which includes one wooden casement.
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 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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