Sun Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. House row. 2 related planning applications.
Sun Cottages
- WRENN ID
- dusted-cobalt-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1985
- Type
- House row
- Address
- Sun Cottages, Tumblers Hill, Sutton Valence, ME17 3AD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 814 492
- Coordinates
- 51.21362, 0.59684
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sun Cottages is a house, now a row of houses, likely dating to the early 16th century or earlier, with a 19th-century facade. The house is timber framed. The front elevation is clad in red brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern. It has a plain tile roof, a brick plinth, and is two storeys high with attics. The roof is half-hipped to the right side, with a multiple brick ridge stack positioned towards the centre. There are three gabled dormers. The windows are irregularly placed, with four recessed three-light casements. The ground-floor windows have segmental heads. There are three half-glazed doors with segmental heads; one is located at the left end and is raised up four steps, and the others are situated either side of the stack, with the left-hand one raised up two steps. A narrow passageway leads to the rear of the property on the right end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Sun Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2005
- 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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