Highbanks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1981. House. 1 related planning application.
Highbanks Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-timber-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Highbanks Cottage, Old Loose Hill, ME15 0BN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 757 519
- Coordinates
- 51.23954, 0.51651
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highbanks Cottage is a 17th-century house located on Old Loose Hill. It features a timber frame that is rendered, topped with a plain tile roof, and has a lobby entry plan. The building stands two storeys high with a garret on a painted stone plinth. The left gable end has plain bargeboards and a moulded pendant. There is a brick ridge stack located to the left of the center and a projecting brick stack on a stone base towards the front of the left gable end. The cottage has irregular fenestration, including two small widely spaced two-light casements on the first floor, two small single-light casements, and one two-light casement on the ground floor. A 12-pane sash window with thick glazing bars is present on the ground floor of the left gable end, along with a boarded door located under the stack. There is a lean-to structure on the right gable end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Highbanks 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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