Rock House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1974. House. 4 related planning applications.
Rock House
- WRENN ID
- dusted-parapet-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rock House, 1, Bedford Place, ME16 8JB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 753 555
- Coordinates
- 51.27237, 0.51234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock House is a circa 1850 building of three storeys constructed from stock brick, originally fronting London Road, but now located on the North Side of Bedford Place as No. 1. The roof is hipped and covered with slate. The building features four sash windows with intact glazing bars and stone sills. The ground floor windows are round-headed. A rusticated porch is present, with a simple round-headed doorcase. The London Road elevation originally displayed one sash window and a two-light bay extending through two floors. Rock House forms a group with Nos. 15 to 25 (odd), London Road.
Local climate
Rock House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 28 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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