Plain Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Plain Cottages
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-chamber-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Plain Cottages, 1, 2 and 3, Pristling Lane, Staplehurst, TN12 0HH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 758 418
- Coordinates
- 51.1493, 0.51348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Plain Cottages is a row of houses that was originally a farmhouse, dating from the 18th century or earlier. The ground floor features a chequered pattern of red and grey brick, while the first floor is tile-hung. The building has a plain tile roof and stands two storeys high with a garret, all resting on a chamfered brick plinth. The roof is half-hipped, and there is a brick ridge stack located towards the left end. The windows are arranged irregularly, consisting of three 3-light casements. There is a boarded door with a flat hood situated under the stack, and to the right, there is a lean-to with a door on the long side leading to No. 3. No. 1 has a half-glazed door in a 20th-century rear addition on the left. The interior has not been inspected. This building was formerly known as Plain Farm.
Local climate
Plain Cottages 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 greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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