Hush Heath Manor is a Grade II* listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 July 1952. A C17 House.
Hush Heath Manor
- WRENN ID
- fading-copper-scarlet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 July 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hush Heath Manor, Husheath Hill, Staplehurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 757 408
- Coordinates
- 51.13982, 0.51067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
House. Dating from the early 17th century, it was restored, likely in the early 20th century. The house is timber framed with rendered infill panels. The right return side features red brick in a Flemish bond pattern on the ground floor, with tile hanging above. A plain tile roof covers the structure. It is arranged in an L-shape, with a main range containing one or two timber-framed bays to the left of a stack bay, a further one-bay room incorporating a cross passage to the left end, and a cross-wing to the right, returning to the rear with a further stack bay and one timber-framed bay behind it. A timber-framed lean-to is apparently integral to the long left side of the wing. The house has two storeys, an attic, and a cellar, with a brick plinth at the base. The timber framing is close-studded. A continuous jetty runs across the front, slightly lower over the stack and to the right end bay, supported by solid-spandrel brackets on the left and scrolled and carved brackets on the right wing. The roof is hipped to the left and features a jettied section at the ends of the projecting wall plate, supported by solid-spandrel brackets. An eaves dormer is located to the left of the stack, also jettied with an ovolo-moulded bressumer on shaped brackets, and featuring moulded bargeboards and a pendant. The broad front gable of the right wing is jettied on billet-moulded bressumers with carved and scrolled brackets, and has billet-moulded bargeboards and a moulded pendant. The rear of the wing has a half-hipped roof, slightly jettied with a further projecting half-hip above, also with similar brackets. Multiple red and grey brick ridge stacks are located at the junction of the main range and wing, and towards the centre of the right return elevation. A 3-light mullioned window is in the left dormer. A 6-light mullioned and transomed window is in the wing gable. The fenestration is irregular, with four leaded windows, a 2-light casement to the left end bay, and a 10-light mullioned and transomed oriel window on shaped brackets, with a rendered ogee base, 2-light ovolo-moulded mullioned frieze windows under the eaves dormer, and another 2-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window to the stack bay. Another 10-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed oriel window, on scrolled and carved brackets, with a moulded head and cill, and 2-light ovolo-moulded frieze windows, is located on the right wing. The frieze windows of both oriel windows are flanked by blocked or blind "windows" with lower, pegged cills. A boarded doorway with a four-centred arched head and hollow spandrels sits to the right end of the left end bay. A boarded door is located under the stack to the right side of the wing. The interior features exposed framing, a panelled room to the left end of the ground floor and to the front of the wing. Linenfold panelling is found at the left and right ends of the main ground-floor room. Brick fireplaces have chamfered bressumers. A side purlin roof with vertical queen-struts to the collars is present.
Local climate
Hush Heath Manor 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 greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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