Lake House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. House. 1 related planning application.

Lake House

WRENN ID
twelfth-eave-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1987
Type
House
Address
Lake House, Cranbrook Road, Staplehurst, TN12 0ES
OS grid reference
TQ 788 421
Coordinates
51.15083, 0.55579
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lake House is a house that dates from the later 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. The ground floor is constructed of later 19th century red and grey brick in Flemish bond, while the first floor features beaded weatherboarding. The roof is plain tile and the building has two storeys plus a garret. It has a gabled shape and includes a multiple filleted red and grey brick stack towards the center, as well as a projecting rear brick stack on the right end. The windows are arranged irregularly, with three leaded casements: one three-light on each side of the porch and one two-light on the first floor of the porch. The two-storey gabled porch, which contains a staircase, has a brick ground floor and a weatherboarded first floor, situated beneath the stack. There is a ribbed door located under a flat bracketed hood on the right side of the porch. To the left, there is a broad rear wing, and to the right, a narrow rear lean-to, with additional lean-tos along each side of the wing. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Lake House 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 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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