Whites is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Farmhouse.

Whites

WRENN ID
peeling-nave-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Whites, Maidstone Road, Staplehurst
OS grid reference
TQ 780 464
Coordinates
51.18924, 0.54641
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Whites is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the 17th century, possibly with an earlier core. It is constructed of 17th-century red brick in English bond, including a lean-to, and features a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and a garret set on a shaped brick plinth. The roof is half-hipped with gablets, and there is a multiple brick stack on the front slope of the roof to the right of the centre.

The front has an irregular arrangement of four leaded casements: one two-light window at the left end, another under the stack, a three-light window between them, and a final window at the right end. There is a boarded door located in a brick porch with a hipped plain tile roof under the stack. To the left gable end, there is a single-storey brick addition with a flat roof and two casements. A rear lean-to is situated to the right. The interior has not been inspected. The building was formerly known as Cross-at-Hand Farm.

Local climate

Whites 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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