Parapet House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. House. 7 related planning applications.
Parapet House
- WRENN ID
- sombre-groin-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Parapet House, Maidstone Road, Lenham, ME17 2QJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 896 522
- Coordinates
- 51.23796, 0.71543
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Parapet House is an early 19th century house, with an early to mid-19th century addition, situated on the south side of Maidstone Road, Lenham. The building is constructed of red brick with a plain tile roof. It is positioned at a right angle to the road and is two storeys in height, featuring an eaves band and a plain brick-coped parapet. The roof is hipped, and there is a rear stack to the right. The front elevation has a regular pattern of three recessed glazing bar sash windows, each with rubbed brick voussoirs. The front door has fielded panels, a moulded architrave, a shallow flat dentilled hood, and a two-light rectangular fanlight above. A red brick addition is set back from the front elevation to the right, with a hipped plain tile roof and one recessed glazing bar sash window with rubbed brick voussoirs. A lower, two-storey addition extends to the rear, with one three-light casement window visible to the road. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Parapet House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% 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 — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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