Amber Cottage Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1987. House pair.

Amber Cottage Fern Cottage

WRENN ID
swift-courtyard-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 March 1987
Type
House pair
Address
Amber Cottage Fern Cottage, West End, Marden
OS grid reference
TQ 741 446
Coordinates
51.17474, 0.49046
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fern Cottage and Amber Cottage are a pair of houses dating from the late 18th century, possibly incorporating an earlier structure. They are timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a plain tile roof. The buildings stand two stories high on a rendered plinth and feature a hipped roof. There is a red brick ridge stack towards the left end and a slender rear stack on the right. The front has an irregular arrangement of three three-light casement windows, with one to the left and two to the right of the stack. Ground-floor windows have shallow sloping hoods. To the left of the left window, there is a boarded door, also with a sloping hood. A panelled door with a rectangular top light is located between the first and second windows from the right. A rear lean-to is present on the right side. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Amber Cottage Fern Cottage 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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