Gover Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1985. Cottage.

Gover Cottage

WRENN ID
leaning-step-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tonbridge and Malling
Constituency
Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Gover Cottage, Gover Hill, West Peckham
OS grid reference
TQ 633 529
Coordinates
51.25208, 0.33888
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gover Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on the north side of Gover Hill in West Peckham. The building features a ground floor made of rubblestone with red brick dressings, while the first floor is tile-hung. It has a plain tiled roof that is half-hipped to the west and has a catslide at the rear. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows with 19th-century casements. The entrance is marked by a central boarded door. Gover Cottage is noted for being a good example of a modest domestic building in the traditional regional style.

Local climate

Gover Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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