Gainhill Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. A C17 Cottages.
Gainhill Cottages
- WRENN ID
- stranded-rood-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1987
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Gainhill Cottages, 1 and 2, Spenny Lane, Collier Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 708 466
- Coordinates
- 51.19331, 0.44394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gainhill Cottages is a pair of houses that were originally a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century, with later alterations. The building has a timber frame, with the ground floor constructed of red and grey brick and the first floor tile-hung, featuring an eaves frieze of fishscale tiles. The left gable end is weatherboarded on both floors, while the rear is weatherboarded on the ground floor and rendered above. The roof is made of plain tiles and has two storeys plus a garret, with a steeply pitched half-hipped design. There are projecting red and grey brick stacks at the rear of the left gable and to the right of the centre. The windows are irregularly arranged, consisting of three casements: two two-light windows towards each end and one three-light window to the left of centre. There are half-glazed doors towards each end of the building, and a lean-to with a stack is located on the right side. The property was formerly known as Gainhill Farm.
Local climate
Gainhill Cottages receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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