Grove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1972. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Grove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lone-foundation-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Grove Cottage, Western Link, Faversham, ME13 7UA
- OS grid reference
- TR 005 627
- Coordinates
- 51.32804, 0.87764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Cottage is a pair of cottages that were part of a gunpowder works, now functioning as a single house. They date from the early to mid-18th century and were altered in the late 19th century. The structure has brick footings and a weatherboarded timber frame above, featuring a central ridge stack and a tiled half-hipped roof.
The building has a single-depth plan with a rear outshut. It is two stories tall and originally had a four-window range, with each cottage having two windows. Now, only the right-hand doorway remains, and the windows include 6/6-pane casements and 4/4-pane casements in four hipped dormers.
The interior was altered in the 1990s. Historically, the Oare Gunpowder Works operated from the 18th century and continued to develop until its closure in 1936. The cottages were among three houses at the northeast end occupied by staff of the works, and they are the only surviving remains from the 18th century works.
Local climate
Grove Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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