Court Lodge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. A Medieval House. 6 related planning applications.
Court Lodge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- veiled-bastion-dale
- 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
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Court Lodge Cottage, Church Square, Lenham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 898 521
- Coordinates
- 51.23666, 0.71823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Court Lodge Cottage is an early 15th-century house row, with some reuse of earlier materials and later alterations. The timber-framed core has a front elevation of patched red brick with some grey brick headers. The left gable end features flint on the ground floor, ragstone on the first floor, and tile hanging above. Sections of stone returns, likely from the 19th century, extend a few feet around the front elevation on both floors. The roof is tiled, half-hipped to the left and gabled to the right where it joins the slightly lower right end of the adjacent building. Multiple brick ridge stacks are towards the left end, a large plain brick stack is in the front roof slope off-centre to the right, and a brick stack is in the rear roof slope of the lower end of number 6.
Number 4 has two hipped dormers, one on either side of the stack. Number 5 has a two-storey rectangular bay with a hipped roof immediately to the left of the large plain stack, and number 6 has two hipped eaves dormers to the left and a third in the lower right end section. The door to number 4 is beneath the stack, with four fielded panels, a semi-circular fanlight, and a flat bracketed hood. The door to number 5, to the left of the bay, is half-glazed with a flat bracketed hood. The panelled door to number 6 is flanked by narrow windows; a small semi-circular rubbed brick arch over the door is joined by a short band to smaller arches over the side windows, forming a symmetrical composition. The left gable end has a tall stone jamb of an arch, a remnant of a former Medieval gateway to Court Lodge, with a small stone door with a triangular head behind it. A rear lean-to extends from number 4, and a short rear wing extends from number 5.
The interior features exposed beams and posts and a crown-post roof. The interior was partly inspected.
Local climate
Court Lodge Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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