Mathurst Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. House, house pair.
Mathurst Farm Cottages
- WRENN ID
- steep-bailey-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1987
- Type
- House, house pair
- Address
- Mathurst Farm Cottages, Goudhurst Road, Staplehurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 773 410
- Coordinates
- 51.14103, 0.53336
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mathurst Farm Cottages is a house or house pair dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and sits on a rendered plinth, featuring a half-hipped roof with a brick stack located on the front slope towards the centre. The windows are arranged irregularly, with two small three-light paned casements flanking the stack, and each has a three-light ground-floor casement below. There is one boarded door between each ground-floor window and the gable end, with the door to the left numbered 4. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Mathurst Farm Cottages 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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