Fosters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
Fosters Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-brass-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fosters Cottage, Water Lane, Hunton, ME15 0SG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 714 486
- Coordinates
- 51.21115, 0.45355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fosters Cottage is a house dating from the later 17th century. It is timber-framed and was originally constructed with a ground floor of red brick in Flemish bond, and a first floor tile-hung. The right gable end is rendered. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The house is two storeys high with attics. Exposed painted posts are visible on the left end and to the left of the front door, along with an exposed midrail below the tile-hanging. The eaves project slightly at the front, featuring a lightly-moulded wooden cornice. Projecting gable end stacks are present, the left-hand stack built out in brick towards the front and incorporating a small casement window. There are two small, rendered gabled dormers. The front of the house has a regular three-window arrangement of two-light casement windows, with two three-light casements on the ground floor. A central boarded door is sheltered by a shallow lean-to hood. A rear lean-to addition is also present. The interior has not been inspected. The cottage was formerly known as Elphick Farm Cottage.
Local climate
Fosters Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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