Old Timbers Sueffle Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. House, restaurant, boutique. 5 related planning applications.
Old Timbers Sueffle Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- stark-moat-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1967
- Type
- House, restaurant, boutique
- Address
- Old Timbers Sueffle Restaurant, April Cottage and Old Timbers, the Green, Bearsted, ME14 4DN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 800 559
- Coordinates
- 51.27443, 0.58035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building comprises a house row, now operating as a restaurant and boutique, with a mid-to-late 18th century facade built onto an older timber-framed structure. The construction is primarily of chequered red and grey brick, topped with a plain tile roof. The left gable is weatherboarded, while the right gable features brickwork on the ground floor with tile-hanging above; the rear elevation is also weatherboarded. The building is two storeys with attics. It features a galleted stone plinth, a plat band, a wood modillion eaves cornice to a half-hipped roof, and a ridge stack slightly off-centre to the left. There are four hipped dormers. The first floor has five glazing bar sashes. On the ground floor, two glazing bar sashes with segmental heads are present to the right, and two 20th-century canted bay windows flank the left side. There are three doors: a ribbed door towards the right end, a 20th-century panelled door towards the centre, and a 20th-century glazed door leading to April Cottage.
The rear of the building reveals remnants of a wing to the left, characterized by a higher, more steeply pitched roof, and a lower wing extending northwards from it.
Inside April Cottage, traces of a jetty are visible along the front elevation. The group value of this building resides in its historical significance as a well-preserved example of 18th-century domestic architecture.
Local climate
Old Timbers Sueffle Restaurant 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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