Holly Bushes Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1985. House.
Holly Bushes Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-railing-dawn
- 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
- Holly Bushes Cottage, Milstead
- OS grid reference
- TQ 911 578
- Coordinates
- 51.28741, 0.73981
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Bushes Cottage is a 17th-century house constructed with a timber frame and red brick nogging. It features a lobby entry plan and is one storey high with an attic, topped by a hipped roof that has gablets. There is a central left chimney stack and two gabled dormers. On the ground floor, there are two wooden casement windows, a boarded door located to the centre left, and a glazed door at the end right. To the right, there is a catslide outshot.
Local climate
Holly Bushes 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2011
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- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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