Tudor Cottage and Snark Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1987. House pair. 2 related planning applications.
Tudor Cottage and Snark Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-flagstone-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1987
- Type
- House pair
- Address
- Tudor Cottage and Snark Cottage, Well Street, Loose, ME15 0EL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 754 519
- Coordinates
- 51.23986, 0.512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 16th or early 17th century house, later divided into two separate dwellings. It is timber-framed with rendered infill, and the left gable end is weatherboarded. The roof is covered in plain tiles. The building has four timber-framed bays, the bay on the left slightly longer. It is two storeys high with a garret, and sits on a stone plinth. The frame is close-studded with jettied eaves on the left gable end, supported by plain brackets. A brick ridge stack is located in the second timber-framed bay from the left.
The windows are mostly four-pane casements. A two-storey, close-studded rectangular bay window projects from the left-hand timber-framed bay, featuring a ground-floor cill on shaped brackets and a three-light casement on each floor. A small two-light casement is located under the eaves of the bay containing the stack. Another similar bay window is positioned in the third timber-framed bay from the left, with a small two-light casement under the eaves of the right-hand bay. A continuous plain-tiled canopy covers a pair of adjacent ribbed doors – one leading to Tudor Cottage on the left and the other to Snark Cottage on the right. A large, canted two-storey close-studded bay window with an eight-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed window with side-lights to each floor, projects from the left gable end.
A narrow, parallel rear range, built in the 19th century, is constructed of stone with brick dressings. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Tudor Cottage and Snark 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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