Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1974. A 16th century House. 2 related planning applications.
Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-ashlar-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Cottage, Highsted Road, Rodmersham, ME9 0AB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 910 610
- Coordinates
- 51.31676, 0.73962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and is underbuilt with painted brick, topped by a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a hipped roof with gablets, along with an off-centre stack on the left side. On the first floor, there are two glazing bar sash windows with a four-pane upper sash, while the ground floor has two canted bay windows. The central entrance door consists of six panels, with the top two being glazed, and it is sheltered by a flat hood. There are catslide outshots on both the left and right sides of the house.
Local climate
Old 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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