Ladybird Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. House.

Ladybird Cottages

WRENN ID
outer-facade-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 October 1987
Type
House
Address
Ladybird Cottages, Benover Road, Yalding
OS grid reference
TQ 697 497
Coordinates
51.22209, 0.42986
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ladybird Cottages is a pair of houses dating from the late 18th century. The ground floor features red and grey brick in Flemish bond on the left side, while the right side is rendered. The first floor is weatherboarded, and the building has a plain tile roof. It is two storeys tall with an attic, set on a rendered plinth, and has a gabled gambrel roof with flush gable end stacks. There are two flat-roofed two-light dormers and an irregular arrangement of two three-light wooden casements. The two boarded doors are positioned towards the centre, each accessed by a separate flight of four brick steps and sharing a continuous lean-to plain-tile hood. There is a rear lean-to, but the interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Ladybird Cottages receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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