Chiltern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1974. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Chiltern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waning-garret-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Chiltern Cottage, Penenden Heath Road, ME14 2DG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 773 571
- Coordinates
- 51.28601, 0.54194
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chiltern Cottage is a building dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century, originally consisting of two cottages. It is two storeys high and constructed of red brick. The roof is half-hipped and tiled, featuring two hipped dormers. There are three large brick chimney stacks and a modillion cornice. On the first floor, there are two large casement windows with cambered lead linings. The ground floor also has two similar casement windows, along with a doorcase on the right side that is topped by a hipped weather porch.
Local climate
Chiltern Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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