6 and 8, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. House, shop.

6 and 8, High Street

WRENN ID
distant-cloister-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1968
Type
House, shop
Address
6 and 8, High Street, Lenham
OS grid reference
TQ 898 521
Coordinates
51.23684, 0.71759
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 6 and 8 High Street are houses and a shop, dating from the 15th or 16th century, with a facade added in the mid-19th century. The buildings are timber framed, with the ground floor featuring a chequered pattern of red and grey brick in Flemish bond, while the first floor is made of slightly later red brick also in Flemish bond. The roof is covered with plain tiles and includes a cross-wing to the right, possibly containing remnants of a hall to the left. The structure stands slightly forward compared to other buildings on the street.

It has two storeys, attics, and a cellar on a plinth, with a moulded wood eaves cornice. The roof is hipped to the right, incorporating the cross-wing, and half-hipped to the left. There are two brick stacks: one at the rear to the left and another in the rear slope of the roof, off-centre to the right. The building features two hipped dormers and a regular arrangement of three glazing bar sash windows. The ground floor windows have rubbed brick voussoirs within the red brick of the first floor.

The central 19th-century shop front has doors on either side; the door to No. 8 is on the left and features six fielded panels with a blocked rectangular fan-light, while the door to No. 6 is half-glazed. Both doors are flanked by plain pilasters and topped with a flat hood that extends over the shop window. There is a cellar hatch with a segmental head beneath the right-hand ground floor window. The front door of No. 8 leads into a 19th-century flagged passage with weatherboarded sides, created within the original building, providing direct access to the yard. A door from this passage leads into the interior of No. 8. Inside, the cross-wing consists of four bays, with the fourth bay at the rear now belonging to High Street No. 4, and features exposed timbers.

Local climate

6 and 8, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% 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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