Kent County Library is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1984. A Renaissance Library. 2 related planning applications.

Kent County Library

WRENN ID
vacant-finial-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1984
Type
Library
Period
Renaissance
Address
Kent County Library, the Square, Lenham, ME17 2PQ
OS grid reference
TQ 898 521
Coordinates
51.23737, 0.71886
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Kent County Library, located on the north side of The Square in Lenham, is a building that dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century. Originally a house and shop, it now serves as a library. The structure features a timber-framed core with a painted brick ground floor and painted mathematical tiles on the first floor of the front elevation. The left gable is weatherboarded, and the building has a steeply pitched plain tile roof. It stands two storeys high with a garret that has an eaves band and is lit at the end. The windows are regularly arranged, with two casements on the first floor. The ground floor boasts a five-light plate-glass shop window with glazed double doors that are off-centre to the left, topped by a two-light rectangular fanlight. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Kent County Library 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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