Pilgrim Cottage Rowland House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. House, house pair.
Pilgrim Cottage Rowland House
- WRENN ID
- tattered-doorway-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1967
- Type
- House, house pair
- Address
- Pilgrim Cottage Rowland House, Station Road, Staplehurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 785 437
- Coordinates
- 51.16516, 0.5522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pilgrim Cottage and Rowland House is a house that has been converted into a pair of houses. It dates from the 17th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed, with the section to the left of the stack rendered, while the ground floor of the section under and to the right of the stack is made of red brick in Flemish bond, and the upper part is weatherboarded. The first floor of the left gable end is tile-hung. The roof is covered with plain tiles and features two storeys plus a garret, with a half-hipped roof on the left and a hipped roof on the right. There is a multiple brick ridge stack located towards the centre of the building. The windows are arranged irregularly, consisting of five casements: two deep three-light windows on the left, and two three-light and one two-light window on the right. The entrance to Rowland House has a panelled door with two top lights and a flat corniced and bracketed hood, positioned towards the centre of the right section. The entrance to Pilgrim Cottage features a door with a flat bracketed hood at the left end. There is a lean-to structure on the left gable end and at the rear. Although the interior has not been inspected, it is reported to contain patterned wall-painting.
Local climate
Pilgrim Cottage Rowland House 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 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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