Wychling House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. House. 1 related planning application.

Wychling House

WRENN ID
little-transept-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1968
Type
House
Address
Wychling House, Lenham Road, Wichling, ME9 0DP
OS grid reference
TQ 914 549
Coordinates
51.26133, 0.74238
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wychling House is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with some alterations made in the early 19th century. The building is timber-framed and features an early 19th-century painted brick facade laid in Flemish bond. The rear elevation and the left end are weatherboarded, while the timber-framed rear wing on the right is clad in painted brick on the ground floor and tile-hung above at the front, with a rendered surface at the rear. The house has a slate roof and stands two storeys high, with a plat band and a string course below a plain coped parapet.

To the left, there is a small corner turret that is also banded and topped with a conical roof, which likely had a similar turret on the right side that is no longer present. The narrow central bay projects slightly forward and has a hipped roof. There is a rear stack located to the left of the centre of the front range. The front of the house has a regular arrangement of three windows, consisting of two recessed tripartite sashes and one two-light casement, all with segmental heads. The turret features loop lights, and the sides of the central projection also have loop lights. The central entrance is a panelled door flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters and topped with a flat corniced hood. The rear wing to the right has two storeys and attics, a steeply pitched roof, a multiple brick ridge stack, and irregular window arrangements. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Wychling House 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 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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