The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1968. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-vestry-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, 156, High Street, Ramsgate
- OS grid reference
- TR 378 652
- Coordinates
- 51.33689, 1.41342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dated 1711, located on the south-west side of High Street in Ramsgate. It is constructed of knapped and coursed flint with red brick dressings and has a plain tiled roof. The building features two storeys and an attic, sitting on a plinth with a plat band. The roof has boxed eaves and Dutch shaped gables, along with two flat-roofed dormers and a stack at the right end.
On each floor, there are two glazing bar sash windows, and a central half-glazed door set in a segmental surround. Notably, on the first floor at the left end, there is half of a roundel with a date plaque that shows the final "11" of the date 1711. This suggests that the house was originally part of a larger building, possibly referred to as Little Ellington on a 1735 plan of Ramsgate.
Local climate
The 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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