Shepherd's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Shepherd's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-cupola-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Shepherd's Cottage, Bredgar Road, Tunstall, ME9 8DY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 889 615
- Coordinates
- 51.3213, 0.71065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shepherd's Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th century, with 18th-century cladding. It has a timber frame that is covered with painted brick and features a plain tiled roof. The building is one storey with an attic, and it has a hipped roof with a gablet, two gabled dormers, and a catslide outshot to the right that includes a stack. There are five wood casement windows and a boarded door set in a basket-arched opening to the right.
Local climate
Shepherd's 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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