Knightrider House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1951. House. 2 related planning applications.

Knightrider House

WRENN ID
deep-chamber-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 July 1951
Type
House
Address
Knightrider House, 14, Knightrider Street, ME15 6LP
OS grid reference
TQ 761 554
Coordinates
51.27059, 0.52404
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Knightrider House, located at 14 Knightrider Street, is a 18th-century building that was originally the home of William Shipley, the founder of the Royal Society of Arts. It currently serves as the office for the Maidstone and District Bus Company. The building is three storeys tall, constructed from brown brick with red brick window dressings and quoins. It features a hipped tiled roof and a wooden modillion eaves cornice. There are five sash windows, although the glazing bars are missing. The windows on the ground and first floors have architraves above them. A later addition is the central porch with a pediment, supported by wooden brackets. Additionally, there is a later three-light bay window on the ground floor of the right side elevation.

Local climate

Knightrider House 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
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  • 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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