Holly Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. Cottage.
Holly Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rooted-corner-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Holly Tree Cottage, Staple Street, Hernhill, ME13 9UA
- OS grid reference
- TR 059 600
- Coordinates
- 51.30266, 0.95341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Tree Cottage is a cottage pair that has been converted into one house, dating from 1739. It features red and blue chequered brick and a plain tiled roof. The building stands two storeys high on a stepped plinth, with a discontinuous plat band and a moulded brick eaves cornice. There are stacks at both the left and right ends of the roof. Each floor has four wooden casements, with the ground floor windows having segmented heads. There are six-panel doors on both the left and right sides, each topped with flat hoods supported by brackets. The date "IH 1739" is inscribed on the brick above the central door.
Local climate
Holly Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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