Fox Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1985. Cottage.
Fox Cottage
- WRENN ID
- moated-barrel-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fox Cottage, Blacketts Road, Tonge
- OS grid reference
- TQ 940 648
- Coordinates
- 51.34925, 0.78576
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fox Cottage is a 16th-century hall house that has been converted into a residential home. It features a timber-framed structure with plaster and a plain tiled roof. The building consists of four framed bays and stands two storeys tall on a plinth made of brick and rubble. The roof is hipped with gablets, and there are stacks located at both ends and in the centre at the rear. The windows are irregularly arranged, with four wooden casements on each floor, and there is a blocked doorway to the centre left. The current entry is through a boarded door located at the rear. Inside, the heavy arch-braced frame and close-studded walls are visible, showcasing the building's historic construction.
Local climate
Fox 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
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