Castle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1973. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

Castle Cottage

WRENN ID
crooked-courtyard-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Thanet
Constituency
Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1973
Type
Cottage
Address
Castle Cottage, Sussex Gardens, Westgate-On-Sea, CT8 8AG
OS grid reference
TR 326 702
Coordinates
51.38398, 1.34248
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Castle Cottage, built around 1880, is a two-storey building located on Sussex Gardens in Westgate-on-Sea. The front elevation features a ground floor made of red brick, while the first floor is designed to look like timber framing with plaster infill. The gable includes three mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights. The rear elevation is faced with flint and has a castellated design, featuring an octagonal bow and a curved gable at one end. This end also has a double lancet window with two reset medieval lancet heads. The left side of the building showcases a Dutch gable and a blocked medieval lancet. Additionally, there is a knapped flint wall with a cement stringcourse, and a later addition includes an octagonal tower with a pitched roof on the left.

Local climate

Castle Cottage 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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