Colyers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1985. House.

Colyers Cottage

WRENN ID
endless-remnant-dust
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swale
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 March 1985
Type
House
Address
Colyers Cottage, Christopher Row, Lynsted with Kingsdown
OS grid reference
TQ 943 593
Coordinates
51.29989, 0.78646
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Colyers Cottage is a 17th-century house located in Lynsted on Christopher Row. It is timber framed and roughcast, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building features a lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high on a plinth. To the right, there is a two-storey projecting gabled porch, and there are stacks at the left end and the rear right. The first floor has four 20th-century wood casement windows, while the ground floor has three wood casements along with a glazed door and sidelights in the porch.

Local climate

Colyers 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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