The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1984. House. 1 related planning application.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
kindled-tin-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 July 1984
Type
House
Address
The Cottage, Pilgrims Way, Detling, ME14 3JY
OS grid reference
TQ 793 583
Coordinates
51.29571, 0.57119
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a house dating from the 15th or 16th century. It is timber-framed with gault brick cladding on the left side and rendered infilling on the right. The roof is covered with plain tiles, steeply pitched and gabled to the left, with a half-hip to the right. There is a multiple brick ridge stack at the left end and a small projecting brick stack at the right end. A dormer window is located off-centre to the left and features a 3-light ground floor casement window beneath. A 20th-century half-glazed door is set within a 20th-century brick extension at the left end. This building holds group value as a well-preserved example of a medieval timber-framed structure.

Local climate

The 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 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 10 transactions since 1997
  • 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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