The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House. 3 related planning applications.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
empty-pier-ebony
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 Cottage, Rawling Street, Milstead, ME9 0SA
OS grid reference
TQ 902 586
Coordinates
51.2949, 0.72784
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century to the early 19th century. It features a distinctive chequered pattern of red and blue brick along with white brick, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has a lobby entry plan and stands two storeys tall on a plinth, with the roof hipped to the right and gabled to the left. There are two hipped dormers and chimney stacks located at the end left and centre right.

To the left, there is a 19th-century addition that includes two glazing bar sash windows on each floor. The original building has five wooden casement windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor, all with leaded lights. The door, which is from the 20th century, consists of six raised and fielded panels and is positioned at centre right, in the middle of the 17th-century structure. It features a rectangular fanlight and a gabled porch. Additionally, there is a 20th-century extension to the right, made of red brick with tile hanging, which is two storeys high and has irregular window placements.

Local climate

The 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • 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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