Island Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. A C17 House.
Island Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-loft-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford MP: Tristan Osborne (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Island Cottage, Holborough Road, Snodland, ME6 5PJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 703 627
- Coordinates
- 51.33808, 0.44472
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Island Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century. It is timber-framed and covered in incised render, featuring a brick modillion cornice beneath a plain tiled hipped roof. The cottage has a central ridge stack and a lean-to addition on the left side. It stands two storeys high and has an irregular arrangement of seven windows on both floors, which are fitted with wooden casements. There are 20th-century double-glazed doors on the right, accompanied by a stone columned porch.
Local climate
Island Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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