Snowfield Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. House. 1 related planning application.

Snowfield Cottage

WRENN ID
hidden-vault-bracken
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
Address
Snowfield Cottage, the Green, Bearsted, ME14 4DL
OS grid reference
TQ 799 559
Coordinates
51.27401, 0.5784
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Snowfield Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with a facade from the mid 18th century. It is timber framed, featuring a front elevation covered in mathematical tiles, tile-hung side elevations, and a plain-tile roof. The cottage has two storeys and attics, with a plinth, a moulded wood eaves cornice, and a hipped roof, along with two end stacks. The front has a regular five-window arrangement with glazing bar sashes in open boxes, and the ground floor windows have segmental heads. The wood doorcase is adorned with fluted Doric pilasters and a triangular pediment, and the door itself has two arched panels with a glazed top panel. At the rear, there is an 18th-century stair turret that extends from the ground floor to the attic, along with a short rear wing on the left. The interior features a substantial timber frame consisting of four bays.

Local climate

Snowfield 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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