7, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. House/shop.
7, High Street
- WRENN ID
- low-timber-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1968
- Type
- House/shop
- Address
- 7, High Street, Lenham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 898 521
- Coordinates
- 51.23672, 0.71782
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 7 High Street is a house that may have served as a shop, dating from the early 18th century, possibly incorporating an earlier core. It is constructed of red brick with occasional grey headers in Flemish bond and features a plain tile roof. The building is double depth, with the front section on the ground floor divided into one large room and a narrow room to the right. The rear section likely consists of one room, with stairs partitioned off against the left wall and a stack to the right.
The building has two storeys, an attic, and a cellar. The roof of the front section is half-hipped to the left, while the rear elevation has two adjacent hips and a brick stack to the right. A central gabled dormer is present, and the front has a regular three-window arrangement of glazing-bar sashes. To the left of the ground floor, there is a three-light late 19th-century shop window. The central door, which is recessed, has four fielded and two flush panels, with a panelled architrave, and is accessed by four steps. The doorcase features pilasters with narrow sunk panels and a flat bracketed hood.
On the rear elevation, there is a central door with flush panels and a flat bracketed hood, also accessed by four steps, with a railing to one side. Inside, the ground floor has plain 18th-century sunk panelling. The front right-hand room on the ground floor includes shutters, a dado rail, and a moulded cornice, along with iron grates. The side purlin roof is visible, and the rear section is slightly lower than the front, with wall-plates morticed for studs.
Local climate
7, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% 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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