Farm Cottages is a Grade II* listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1951. A Medieval Hall-house. 2 related planning applications.
Farm Cottages
- WRENN ID
- weathered-railing-vetch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1951
- Type
- Hall-house
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Farm Cottages, 1 and 2 Farm Cottages, Old School Lane, ME15 8FF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 779 541
- Coordinates
- 51.25905, 0.54848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farm Cottages, located on Old School Lane in Willington, is a 15th-century Wealden hall-house that features a timber frame with plaster infilling. The building has a central section flanked by two projecting wings, with the first floor jettied at the ends supported by protruding floor joists and brackets, and curved braces on the first floor. It has a hipped tiled roof that includes smoke louvres and four casement windows. On the left side, there is a lean-to extension that contains an old bread oven. The right side elevation displays a ground floor made of ashlar stone and a first floor that is tile-hung. Additionally, there is a 17th-century ashlar chimneystack and a triple crown post roof.
Local climate
Farm Cottages 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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