Acton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Acton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-tin-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Acton Cottage, 11, Reading Street, Broadstairs and St. Peters, CT10 3BD
- OS grid reference
- TR 388 695
- Coordinates
- 51.37459, 1.43009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Acton Cottage is an early to mid 19th century building located on Beading Street in Broadstairs. It is three storeys high and constructed from rough flints, topped with a hipped slate roof. The building features stock brick long and short quoins and window dressings. There is one sash window with a cambered head, which retains its glazing bars. Acton Cottage is included in the listing for its group value, as it is now amalgamated with No 13. It is part of a group that includes Nos 11 to 15 (odd) and The Corner Cottage.
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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