Fort Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 2000. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Fort Cottages
- WRENN ID
- rooted-steel-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 2000
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fort Cottages, Church Road, Broadstairs and St. Peters, CT10 1HA
- OS grid reference
- TR 399 679
- Coordinates
- 51.36034, 1.44461
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fort Cottages are a pair of cottages, likely originally built as coastguard cottages, constructed after 1824 and depicted on the 1838 map of Broadstairs. The cottages are rendered and feature gable ends with kneelers. The roof is now covered in 20th-century concrete plain tiles, and there are one central and two end brick chimneystacks. The buildings are two storeys high.
On the east side, there are windows that alternate between cambered sashes and sliding sashes, along with pedimented doorcases. The west elevation has eight cambered sashes and pedimented doorcases. The layout is quite unusual, as there were originally eight separate dwelling units accessed by four doors leading to a lobby. This lobby provides access to two distinct "front" doors, one leading to a downstairs unit and the other to a staircase that leads to an upstairs unit. Inside, there are internal ledged doors to the lobby featuring handmade strap hinges, along with original fireplaces and plank panelling.
Local climate
Fort Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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