Wierton Grange is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. A Victorian House. 3 related planning applications.
Wierton Grange
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Wierton Grange, Wierton Hill, Boughton Monchelsea, ME17 4JR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 784 502
- Coordinates
- 51.22362, 0.55352
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wierton Grange is a house dating from 1896, built in the style of R. Norman Shaw. The ground floor is constructed from red brick in English bond, while the first floor is clad with fishscale tiles. Stone dressings are used for occasional features on the ground floor and for the chimney stacks. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The house has an L-shaped layout, with the main range facing south and a wing extending north from the east end. It is two storeys high with attics.
The south-facing (garden) front has a steeply pitched gabled roof, with projecting gable end stacks and a central brick ridge stack. A cupola with a look-out is situated west of the centre. Dormers are evenly spaced and have alternating segmental and triangular pediments, featuring leaded cross windows. Two symmetrically placed flat-roofed canted bays project forward, featuring moulded wooden cornices and leaded wooden mullioned and transomed windows. A single leaded wooden mullioned and transomed window sits between the canted bays at the centre. The centre of the south front is recessed behind two engaged columns and a central column. A half-glazed door is located within this recess.
The north-facing (entrance) front features a broad porch between the centre and the west end. The porch is constructed with ashlar masonry on the ground floor, tile hanging on the first floor, and has paired Doric columns framing a recess which contains the front door. Two tall, narrow windows illuminate the hall to the east of the porch. The wing is built using the same materials as the main range and features two broad tile-hung eaves dormers. A rainwater head dated 1896 is also present on the wing.
The interior is reported to include a galleried two-storey hall and fine joinery, though it has not been inspected.
Local climate
Wierton Grange 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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