Gore Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. A Medieval House. 3 related planning applications.
Gore Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-bronze-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1967
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Gore Cottage, Bearsted, ME14 4NG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 803 553
- Coordinates
- 51.26889, 0.58428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gore Cottage is a house dating to the late 15th century. It is timber framed with brick infilling on the ground floor and tile hanging on the first floor, topped with a plain tile roof. Originally built as a 2-bay open hall, it has a single-storeyed bay at each end. The house now appears as two storeys and four timber-framed bays.
The south elevation has a stone plinth, a jetty at the left end, and a hipped roof with a gablet at the right end. A ridge stack is located off-centre to the left. There are three first-floor casement windows, one near each end and one in the centre, which merge with eaves dormers directly above them. A 20th-century lean-to has been added at the right end, containing a door. A single-storey, single-bay extension is recessed from the south elevation and was likely built in the 19th century. This extension is timber framed with almost straight arch braces, brick infilling and a plain tile roof.
The interior features moulded end-of-hall beams, moulded central-truss posts, a fragment of a moulded crown-post, evidence for a former staircase, and a right-end jetty.
Local climate
Gore 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.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- 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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