Cottage About 1.5 Metres North of Oaklands is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1987. Cottage.
Cottage About 1.5 Metres North of Oaklands
- WRENN ID
- lost-cornice-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- TQ 730 534
- Coordinates
- 51.25405, 0.47784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This cottage, located about 1.5 metres north of Oaklands, is a mid-18th century structure that may have been part of a larger building that has since been demolished. It features chequered red and grey brickwork and a plain tile roof. The cottage is two storeys high with a basement, set on a galleted stone plinth, and has a plat band. The roof is pyramidal, and there is a projecting stack at the right gable end.
On the first floor, there is a segmental-headed 12-pane sash window in an open box at the centre. The ground floor has a segmental-headed 3-light casement window in the centre. Access to the cellar below is through double doors, which are reached by descending six steps, and there are ventilation slits present. A small 2-light casement window is located in the cellar to the north. The left gable end has a blocked segmental-headed window with a scratch date of S.M. 1769. There is a modern entrance in a 20th-century section at the rear. The interior has not been inspected. The cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Cottage About 1.5 Metres North of Oaklands 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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