The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. House. 6 related planning applications.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
solemn-niche-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 May 1967
Type
House
Address
The Cottage, High Street, Marden, TN12 9DP
OS grid reference
TQ 745 445
Coordinates
51.17381, 0.49504
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is a house with a 19th-century facade built onto a probable 17th-century structure. It has a rendered exterior, a plain tile roof, and a low rendered plinth. The house is two storeys high with a garret, and features a half-hipped roof. A brick stack, constructed in stretcher bond, rises from the ridge to the right of centre. The windows are irregular, consisting of four casements with dripmoulds. These include a two-light window to the left, a two-light window below the stack, a three-light window between them, and a further window to the right end. Dripmoulds also appear on the ground-floor casements. Small two-light Gothic windows are located at each end of the garret. A door, with four fielded panels and a semi-circular hood, sits beneath the stack. A short rear return wing extends to the right, with tile hanging on the first floor and a half-hipped roof topped with a gable end stack. A further short rear wing is adjacent to the left side of this wing. A rear lean-to is located to the left. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% 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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  • Sale history — 10 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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