Riddles Cottage Riddles House is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. House.
Riddles Cottage Riddles House
- WRENN ID
- riven-fireplace-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP: Kevin McKenna (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Riddles Cottage Riddles House, Borden Lane
- OS grid reference
- TQ 891 631
- Coordinates
- 51.33593, 0.71345
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Riddles Cottage, also known as Riddles House, is an L-shaped building that has been divided into two houses. The oldest part is the south wing, which features timber framing with plaster infilling on the first floor of its west face. The rest of the building is weatherboarded and consists of a central section with two wings. Originally, the first floor oversailed at the protruding ends of the floor joists, but the ground floor of the north wing has been underbuilt. The west wing is likely from the 17th century and is two storeys high, also weatherboarded. It has a red brick chimney breast at its west end and a tiled roof covering the entire structure. There are three casement windows facing east and three facing north.
Local climate
Riddles Cottage Riddles House 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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