Wanshurst is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1987. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Wanshurst
- WRENN ID
- sharp-moat-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wanshurst, Battle Lane, Marden, TN12 9DF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 763 452
- Coordinates
- 51.17961, 0.52171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A farmhouse, now a house, dating to the late 16th or early 17th century, with alterations in the 19th century. The house is timber-framed and has a lobby entry plan. The ground floor is built of red and grey brick in a Flemish bond pattern, while the first floor is tile-hung. The roof is covered with tiles. The original layout appears to have been one timber-framed bay to the left and three bays to the right of a central stack bay. The bays to the right were divided to create a single-bay room immediately to the right of the stack and a two-bay room at the right end.
The house is two storeys high, set on a low brick plinth, and has a half-hipped roof. A brick ridge stack is located to the left of the centre. The front has an irregular arrangement of four casement windows: a four-light window to the left, a small three-light window under the stack, another three-light window to the right, and a four-light window at the right end. A three-light diamond mullion window is located at the rear, on the right side. A ribbed door is set within a gabled brick porch, which is situated under the stack. A lean-to addition is present at the rear, on the left.
The interior was only partly inspected. Exposed timber framing is visible, as is a chamfered axial beam and a brick fireplace in English bond with a wooden bressumer, in the room to the right of the stack. Also noted were a chamfered cross-beam and broadly-chamfered joists in the right end room. The building was formerly known as Wanshurst Green.
Local climate
Wanshurst receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% 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 — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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