Mill Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. House row. 3 related planning applications.

Mill Cottages

WRENN ID
silent-doorway-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 October 1987
Type
House row
Address
Mill Cottages, 1-7, West Farleigh, ME15 0NF
OS grid reference
TQ 708 529
Coordinates
51.24977, 0.44719
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mill Cottages is a row of houses built in the early 19th century. The cottages are timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a slate roof. They are arranged in a double-depth layout, featuring two storeys and attics, and have a rendered brick plinth. The roof is half-hipped with a gambrel shape, and there are four red and grey brick ridge stacks, two of which are located towards the center (with the one to the right of center being smaller), and one at each end. The rear of the building has three projecting brick stacks.

The cottages have seven flat-roofed dormers that contain two-light casements. The windows are arranged irregularly, with a total of seven: five are two-light paned casements and two are horizontally-sliding sashes, with only one window located at the right-central stack. On the ground floor, there are seven two-light paned casements, each featuring a plain frieze and a moulded cornice.

The doors also number seven, each with flat bracketed hoods. The first door, to the left end (No. 1), is half-glazed; No. 2 has flush panels; and No. 3, situated between Nos. 2 and 4, has a half-glazed and panelled design. No. 4 has a half-glazed and panelled door between two central stacks, while No. 5 has a flush panel door and No. 6 has another flush panel door, both located between the right-central and right stacks. Finally, No. 7, at the right end, features a half-glazed and boarded door. The interior of the cottages has not been inspected.

Local climate

Mill Cottages receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 13 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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