Sweetlands Couchman Green is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Farmhouse.

Sweetlands Couchman Green

WRENN ID
burning-ledge-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Sweetlands Couchman Green, Couchman Green Lane, Staplehurst
OS grid reference
TQ 789 453
Coordinates
51.1794, 0.55929
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sweetlands Couchman Green is a farmhouse dating from the mid-18th century. It features a chequered pattern of red and grey brick with red brick dressings and has a plain tile roof. The building stands two storeys high with an attic. Notable architectural details include a rubbed red brick plat band with a moulded soffit, a moulded wooden eaves cornice, and flush red brick quoins. There is red brick "chainâge" between the central first-floor window and the doorway. The house has a gabled roof with gable end stacks and a hipped two-light dormer. The front facade has a regular arrangement of three windows, consisting of two three-light and one two-light casement, all with cambered heads and rubbed brick voussoirs on the three-light ground-floor casements. The central door features fielded panels, a plain frieze, and a moulded flat hood supported by brackets. To the right, there is a short two-storey rear wing that is tile-hung on the first floor and has a mansard roof. To the left, a 1960s two-storey rear wing is present, with a brick ground floor and tile-hung upper floor. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Sweetlands Couchman Green 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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