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
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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