Bletchenden Place is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1986. House.
Bletchenden Place
- WRENN ID
- scarred-bracket-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bletchenden Place, Bletchenden Road, Headcorn, TN27 9JB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 838 429
- Coordinates
- 51.15653, 0.62838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bletchenden Place is a 17th-century house located on Bletchenden Road in Headcorn. It features a timber-framed structure with red and grey brick on the ground floor and tile-hanging on the first floor. The house has a plain tile roof and stands two storeys tall with a half-hipped roof. There is a multiple brick ridge stack positioned to the left of the center. The windows are arranged irregularly, consisting of three 3-light casements, along with two French windows on the ground floor. A boarded door is situated under a gabled hood at the left end of a rear lean-to. The interior has not been inspected. The house was formerly known as Little Bletchenden.
Local climate
Bletchenden Place 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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