Sorrento is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1974. Villa.
Sorrento
- WRENN ID
- fading-pilaster-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1974
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Sorrento, Station Road, Staplehurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 785 440
- Coordinates
- 51.16795, 0.55206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sorrento is a detached villa built in the mid-19th century. It features a stucco exterior and a slate roof, with a double-depth design and two storeys set on a stuccoed plinth. The building has a plat band and raised stuccoed quoins, with flat eaves soffits. The narrow central bay is slightly recessed, while the roofs of the two outer bays are hipped to the front, with the hips returning. The stuccoed gable end stacks project with eaves soffits and have corniced tops adorned with semi-circular motifs.
The front of the villa has a regular arrangement of three windows: each outer bay contains a six-pane sash window set in a moulded architrave with plain consoles at the cills, and the centre features a similar four-pane sash. Ground-floor windows have moulded consoled cornices and consoled iron balconies. The central entrance is a panelled door with a rectangular fanlight, located in an open stuccoed Doric porch that has a plain frieze and moulded cornice, topped with iron railings that form a balcony beneath the first-floor window. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Sorrento 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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