The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- low-rubblework-evening
- 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 Old Cottage, Hermitage Lane, Detling, ME14 3HP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 797 597
- Coordinates
- 51.30875, 0.57822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a house dating from the 15th century. It has a timber-framed structure, with the rear elevation featuring brick cladding in English bond on the ground floor and rendering on the first floor, topped with a plain tile roof. The building is two storeys high and sits on a plinth. The roof is hipped at both ends, with a gablet on the right end, resulting in a short ridge. There is a large brick chimney stack at the right end, which has a base in English bond and is now enclosed by a brick lean-to with a plain tile roof. On the first floor, there are two eaves dormers towards the right end, each containing small two-light casements. A 20th-century half-glazed door is located slightly off-centre to the left. The cottage may consist of three timber-framed bays and features a weatherboarded lean-to on the street elevation.
Local climate
The Old 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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