Little Mill Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1987. House pair.
Little Mill Cottages
- WRENN ID
- ghost-ashlar-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1987
- Type
- House pair
- Address
- Little Mill Cottages, 5 and 6, Underlynn Lane, Marden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 742 458
- Coordinates
- 51.18508, 0.49178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Mill Cottages is a pair of houses that were originally a farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century, with a facade added in the early 20th century. The building is timber framed, with the front elevation covered in pebbledash. The left gable end has a brick ground floor, while the right gable end is weatherboarded and pebbledashed on the first floor. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has a hipped shape.
The layout features a lobby entry plan with four timber-framed bays and a stack bay; two bays create two rooms to the left of the stack, and two bays form one room to the right. The building is two storeys high and has a multiple red and grey brick ridge stack located slightly to the right of the center. The windows are irregularly arranged and include five casements: a small two-light window on the left, another on the right, a shallow three-light oriel window on shaped brackets with heads under the eaves on either side of the stack, and a small single light beneath the stack. There is a half-glazed door in a small gabled brick porch towards the left end and another door at the rear to the right.
Inside, the cottage features exposed framing with two rectangular panels per storey, gunstock-jowled posts, chamfered beams, and edge-halved scarf joints. Each oriel window has a wooden cill and blocked two-light ovolo-moulded mullion frieze windows, along with a partly-blocked two-light ovolo-moulded mullion window beneath the stack. The interior also includes a brick fireplace with a wooden bressumer. The building was formerly known as Little Mill Farm.
Local climate
Little Mill Cottages receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% 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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