Nutshell is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1984. House.
Nutshell
- WRENN ID
- ancient-buttress-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Nutshell, Rigshill Road, Otterden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 947 529
- Coordinates
- 51.24206, 0.78806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nutshell is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with a facade that was modified in the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is timber framed, and the front elevation features grey brick laid in header bond. The house has two storeys sitting on a flint plinth, with traces of a plain brick eaves cornice and a hipped roof. There is a central multiple brick ridge stack. The windows are regularly spaced and consist of two 20th-century two-light wood casements. The central entrance has a boarded door topped with a flat bracketed hood. At the rear, there is a lean-to structure divided into two sections, with an additional section added at right angles to the rear of the right end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Nutshell sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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