Lavender Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage.
Lavender Cottages
- WRENN ID
- grey-granite-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lavender Cottages, 1, 2 and 3, Waterham Road, Hernhill
- OS grid reference
- TR 070 618
- Coordinates
- 51.31803, 0.96934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lavender Cottages is a row of three cottages located on Waterham Road in Hernhill, dating from around 1700, with extensions made in the early 19th century. The cottages are timber framed and clad with red brick, with structural red brick used in the extensions, and they feature plain tiled roofs.
The left cottage, built in the early 19th century, is two storeys high and has brick corbel eaves under a double span roof, with a stack projecting from the left end. It has one wooden casement window on each floor and a boarded door with a segmental head. The central cottage, dating from around 1700, is one storey with an attic and features a gabled dormer and a stack on the right. It has one wooden casement window, one sash window, and a central boarded door, all with segmental heads. The right cottage, built in the 19th century, is also two storeys and has corbelled eaves with a stack on the right. It has a regular arrangement of two sash windows on each floor, both with segmental heads, and a central ribbed door with a flat hood supported by brackets.
Inside, the cottages feature heavy beams in a central position and a large fireplace with a wooden mantel.
Local climate
Lavender Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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