Elder Cottage Old Bay Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1973. House. 4 related planning applications.
Elder Cottage Old Bay Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-finial-gold
- 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
- House
- Address
- Elder Cottage Old Bay Cottage, 143, Minnis Road, Birchington, CT7 9NS
- OS grid reference
- TR 289 694
- Coordinates
- 51.3778, 1.28892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elder Cottage and Old Bay Cottage, located on Minnis Road in Birchington-on-Sea, are two adjoining buildings. The right side, Elder Cottage, is a 15th-century, two-storey timber-framed cottage featuring a tiled hipped roof with two hipped dormers that have casement windows. The ground floor has close-studded timber framing and includes a later pedimented porch. The left side, Old Bay Cottage, is two storeys high and faced with 18th-century red brick. It has a thatched roof with a central stack, casement windows, and a later weather porch. A sun fire plaque is also present on the building.
Local climate
Elder Cottage Old Bay 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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