Drakes Cork and Cask is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1974. Public house. 6 related planning applications.
Drakes Cork and Cask
- WRENN ID
- tangled-gutter-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1974
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Drakes Cork and Cask, 9, Fairmeadow, ME14 1JP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 757 556
- Coordinates
- 51.27308, 0.51877
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drakes Cork and Cask is a timber-framed building, likely from the 17th century, featuring a plastered front. The ground floor is underbuilt, while the second floor overhangs on a bressumer with four gables above. The building has a tiled roof and stands two storeys tall. It includes three modern casement windows and a modern pub front. There is a carriage entrance to the north, which has an open timbered roof. A plaque on the building notes that in 1557, seven people were burnt for their faith near this location.
Local climate
Drakes Cork and Cask 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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