Acton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. House.
Acton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-gargoyle-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Acton Cottage, 13, Reading Street, Broadstairs and St. Peters
- OS grid reference
- TR 388 695
- Coordinates
- 51.37457, 1.43016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Acton Cottage is an 18th-century building located on the northeast side of Reading Street in Broadstairs. It is a two-storey structure faced with flint and features a mansard roof covered with old tiles. The building has red brick long and short quoins and window dressings. There is a doorcase located on the side, which is part of a 19th-century extension. Additionally, there is a two-storey 19th-century extension at the rear with a half-hipped gable. Acton Cottage has been amalgamated with No 11. Together, Nos 11 to 15 (odd) and The Corner Cottage form a group.
Local climate
Acton 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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