Drey Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. A Georgian Pair of houses.
Drey Cottages
- WRENN ID
- graven-tower-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1987
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Drey Cottages, High Street, Staplehurst, TN12 0AP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 785 431
- Coordinates
- 51.15995, 0.55226
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drey Cottages is a pair of houses dating from the 18th century or earlier, located on the west side of Staplehurst High Street. The ground floor is constructed of painted brick, while the first floor is weatherboarded, topped with a plain tile roof. The buildings are two low storeys with attics and feature gabled roofs. A brick stack is positioned on the front slope of the roof to the left of the center. There is a small two-light dormer with a lean-to roof and irregular fenestration that includes two small two-light wooden casements. On the left side of the ground floor, there is a canted bay window, and to the right, a three-light casement. The entrances are panelled doors located at the left and towards the right end, both adorned with flat bracketed hoods. A rear lean-to is also present. The interior has not been inspected. The cottages were formerly known as Cosy Nook and Fir Tree Cottage.
Local climate
Drey Cottages 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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