The Bishops Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1987. A Early C19 or earlier House. 3 related planning applications.
The Bishops Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-flue-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Bishops Cottage, Bishops Lane, Hunton, ME15 0SH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 720 488
- Coordinates
- 51.21296, 0.46168
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bishops Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century or earlier. The front of the building has channelled render, while the right gable is red brick in a Flemish bond pattern. The first floor is weatherboarded and the roof is covered with plain tiles. The house has a half-hipped roof and a brick ridge stack located to the right of centre. The fenestration is irregular, with three 16-pane sashes on the first floor and three on the ground floor. A panelled door leads into a single-storey rear extension that was built in the 20th century on the right-hand side. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Bishops 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 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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