Waterditch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1986. House.
Waterditch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- under-cobalt-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Waterditch Cottage, Ashford Road, Badlesmere
- OS grid reference
- TR 007 549
- Coordinates
- 51.25803, 0.87616
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Waterditch Cottage is a house, formerly cottages, dating from the 16th century and refronted in the 18th century. It has a timber frame and is refronted with painted brick, featuring a weatherboarded right return. The roof is plain tiled, and the building stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a hipped roof and gablets, along with stacks at both ends.
On the first floor, there are four wooden casement windows, while the ground floor has three segmental-headed wooden casements. The central entrance features double French doors, with a half-glazed door to the right and a blocked doorway to the left, both having segmental heads. There is an outshot to the left and a catslide outshot at the rear.
Inside, the full frame is visible, although it has been replaced by brick at the front and left return. Notable features include a moulded main beam, door surrounds, and beam ends. A mullioned window, now located internally, dates back to the 16th century. The inglenook contains a contemporary child's leather shoe bricked into it, along with two domed bread ovens from around 1800.
Local climate
Waterditch 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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