2, Lower Stone Street is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1951. House. 6 related planning applications.
2, Lower Stone Street
- WRENN ID
- cold-baluster-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 2, Lower Stone Street, ME15 6JN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 761 556
- Coordinates
- 51.27248, 0.52434
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 2 on Lower Stone Street is an early 19th-century building that stands two storeys tall and is finished in stucco, with a rusticated ground floor. It features a string course, cornice, and parapet. The front has three sash windows with intact glazing bars. On the ground floor, there are round-headed windows framed by moulded architraves, set within arcading that has a keystone above. The first floor has tall square-headed windows with architraves, with the central window topped by a pediment.
The building is flanked by slightly recessed single-storey wings, each containing a doorway topped with a balustraded parapet. The south wing has an additional first floor with a small window. The doorways in these wings are round-headed; the north doorway is set in arcading with a semi-circular tympanum and features a door with six rounded panels, while the south doorway has pilasters, a projecting cornice, a semi-circular fanlight, and a door with six fielded panels. A curved stone staircase with iron railings leads to the entrances.
Nos 2 to 8 (even) are part of a group.
Local climate
2, Lower Stone Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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