Olde Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1971. House.

Olde Cottage

WRENN ID
outer-cloister-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Thanet
Constituency
Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 June 1971
Type
House
Address
Olde Cottage, Old Road, Sarre
OS grid reference
TR 255 650
Coordinates
51.33943, 1.23748
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Cottage is a house from the early 19th century. It is constructed of flint with red brick dressings and has a plain tiled roof. The building has one storey and an attic, featuring two gabled dormers and a stack made of yellow stock brick at the left end. There is a wooden casement window to the left and another to the centre right, a round bullseye window to the right, and a central boarded door with a segmental head. This property is included for its group value with Wychways and Lamb's Cottage.

Local climate

Olde Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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