Vines Croft is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1950. House.

Vines Croft

WRENN ID
stranded-nave-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Medway
Constituency
Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1950
Type
House
Address
Vines Croft, 23, Crow Lane
OS grid reference
TQ 743 681
Coordinates
51.38597, 0.50427
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Vines Croft is a house located on Crow Lane in Rochester, likely dating from the 17th century but significantly renewed in the 19th century. The structure is timber-framed with a brick underbuilding and features decorative tile hanging on the front. It has a Kent tile gable-end roof and tall brick ridge stacks on both the main range and the rear wing. The house is two storeys high with a dormered attic.

The front of the house has an irregular arrangement of three windows, with three hipped dormers that contain two-light casements with diamond leading. The first floor features three windows, including two and three-light designs, with leaded panes on the right-hand windows. The ground floor has a single 16-pane sash window with external shutters to the left of the deeply recessed half-glazed door.

The right-hand side of the house shows some exposed framing, and the gable wall has a Yorkshire sash window on the first floor with a horned sash and margin panes. At the rear, there is a large gabled dormer, with the upper floor also tile hung like the front. The rear of the house has various extensions from different periods. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Vines Croft sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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