Tulip Cottage and Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1987. A Post-medieval House.
Tulip Cottage and Lilac Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-thatch-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- Tulip Cottage and Lilac Cottage, Otham Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 797 532
- Coordinates
- 51.24995, 0.57389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tulip Cottage and Lilac Cottage are a pair of houses that were likely originally a barn, dating from the 16th century or earlier, with a facade added in the 19th century. The buildings are timber framed, with the front elevation featuring red brick in Flemish bond. The left gable end has brickwork on the ground floor and is rendered above, while the right gable end is weatherboarded on the ground floor and rendered above. The rear is also rendered. The roof is covered with plain tiles and is probably made up of three timber-framed bays, rising to two storeys with a hipped roof that has gablets. A central brick chimney stack is located on the front slope of the roof. The windows have an irregular arrangement, consisting of two 2-light wooden casements with segmental heads on the ground floor. The doors are boarded with segmental heads, with one leading to Tulip Cottage on the left and the other to Lilac Cottage on the right. The interior has only been partly inspected but features gunstock-jowled principal posts, an edge-halved scarf joint, and a collared common rafter roof. The cottages are included for their group value.
Local climate
Tulip Cottage and Lilac Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
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