Well Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1984. A C15 & C16 House.

Well Cottage

WRENN ID
eternal-balcony-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 July 1984
Type
House
Address
Well Cottage, the Street, Detling
OS grid reference
TQ 792 583
Coordinates
51.29607, 0.57029
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Well Cottage is a house dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. It is timber-framed, with rendered infilling on the ground floor, weatherboarding on the first floor, and a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and features a roof that is oddly half-hipped on the right side. There is a multiple brick stack on the front slope of the roof towards the left end. The windows are irregularly arranged, consisting of four leaded casements with one, two, and three lights. The left end of the front elevation has a gable that is tile-hung above the eaves. There is a 20th-century ribbed door located off-centre to the left. The structure is likely of interest.

Local climate

Well Cottage 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 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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