Motto Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Motto Cottages
- WRENN ID
- small-parapet-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Motto Cottages, 1 and 2, Lower Road, Sutton Valence, ME17 3BL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 812 491
- Coordinates
- 51.21308, 0.59316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cottages, now numbered 1 and 2 Motto Cottages, are a house, likely dating from the 17th century or earlier, with alterations made in the mid-to-late 19th century. The ground floor is rendered, while the first floor is clad with banded plain and fishscale tiles. The roof is tiled and half-hipped to the left. A short wing, probably added later, projects forwards to the right end. The roof of the wing has higher eaves and is also half-hipped to the street. A multiple brick ridge stack rises from the front slope of the roof, centrally located on the main range. The windows are irregular, with four 12-pane glazing-bar sashes – three to the main range and one to the left side of the wing. A panelled door is located at No. 1, beneath the stack, and another is situated up two steps to the left side of the wing. Three small plaques bearing mottoes are fixed to the first floor. A two-storey addition to the left is not part of the listed building. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Motto 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 — 3 transactions since 2006
- 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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