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

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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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