Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1951. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Keeper's Cottage

WRENN ID
sharp-corbel-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 July 1951
Type
Cottage
Address
Keeper's Cottage, ME15 8DP
OS grid reference
TQ 778 542
Coordinates
51.25955, 0.54803
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Keeper's Cottage is a 15th-century timber-framed building with plaster infilling. It features a central section flanked by two projecting wings, each with a first floor that jetties out at the ends, supported by protruding floor joists and brackets, and curved braces on the first floor. The cottage has a tiled roof with one hipped dormer and three casement windows that contain small square leaded panes. There is a blocked contemporary four-centred doorway on the ground floor of the right wing, and an early 19th-century doorway in the left wing, which includes pilasters, a projecting cornice, and a six-panel door. The rear elevation also has two hipped dormers, and the roof slopes down to ground level. The side elevation is tile-hung.

Local climate

Keeper's Cottage 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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