Hop Pickers' Kitchen at Tq 768 415 is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Kitchen.
Hop Pickers' Kitchen at Tq 768 415
- WRENN ID
- lost-copper-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1987
- Type
- Kitchen
- Address
- Hop Pickers' Kitchen at Tq 768 415, Pristling Lane, Staplehurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 768 414
- Coordinates
- 51.14538, 0.52719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hop-Pickers' Kitchen is a 19th-century cook-house located in Staplehurst on Pristling Lane. It is constructed of red brick with occasional grey headers in Flemish bond and features a plain tile roof. The building is single storey and has a gabled design. It includes two apparently separate rooms, with projecting shouldered gable-end stacks that rise well above the ridge, corbelled out from about halfway up the wall. There is one window opening at each end and two doors set towards the center. At the rear, there is a brick lean-to with a slate roof, which contains two separate WCs, each with an external door only. Inside, there is a broad hearth with a cambered head across each gable end, and a brick wall separates the two rooms, with boarding above the eaves level.
Local climate
Hop Pickers' Kitchen at Tq 768 415 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 greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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