Bockingford Steps is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1951. Building.
Bockingford Steps
- WRENN ID
- scattered-sandstone-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1951
- Type
- Building
- Address
- Bockingford Steps, Lower Tovil
- OS grid reference
- TQ 756 536
- Coordinates
- 51.25458, 0.51616
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bockingford Steps is a 2-storey timber-framed building with attics, set on a stone base. The front is plastered and features three overhanging gables supported by a bressumer and brackets. The sides are covered with weatherboarding. There are three sash windows, although the glazing bars are missing. An attic window is present in one of the gables. The building also has a later addition of a gabled porch.
Local climate
Bockingford Steps 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
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