Cove Cottage the Coves is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Cove Cottage the Coves
- WRENN ID
- carved-hall-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cove Cottage the Coves, High Street, Broadstairs and St. Peters, CT10 2TH
- OS grid reference
- TR 382 683
- Coordinates
- 51.36437, 1.42159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cove Cottage, located on the north-east side of High Street in St Peter's, is a pair of adjoining houses built in the 18th century. The Coves is a tall, red brick house with five storeys and one window, plus one blocked window space. It features a modillion eaves cornice, a five-light bay window on the ground and first floors with intact glazing bars, and a doorway accessed by seven steps, which is flanked by pilasters and topped with an open pediment. The door itself is a six-panel moulded design, with the top two panels cut away and glazed. The side elevation has two sash windows with missing glazing bars.
Cove Cottage is a long, low house with two storeys and six windows, topped with a parapet. It has two small bay windows on both floors, which also have missing glazing bars, and a small porch with an open pediment supported by Tuscan columns.
Cove Cottage, along with Nos 43 and 45 The Coves, forms a group of buildings.
Local climate
Cove Cottage the Coves 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 — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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