The Woolpack Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Woolpack Inn
- WRENN ID
- quiet-cobalt-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Woolpack Inn, Benover Road, Yalding, ME18 6AS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 704 483
- Coordinates
- 51.20855, 0.43921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Woolpack Inn is a public house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, possibly with an earlier core, and features 19th-century additions and a facade. The building has a rendered brick ground floor, while the first floor is hung with fishscale tiles and bordered by plain tiles. It has a plain tile roof and consists of approximately four timber-framed bays along with a narrow stack bay. The inn is two storeys high and has a rendered plinth.
The two right end bays project slightly forward but maintain the same eaves height as the rest of the building. The roof is half-hipped to the left and hipped to the right, with a red brick ridge stack that has a recessed round-headed front panel, located to the right of centre. The fenestration is irregular, featuring three casements: there is nothing on the left end, one three-light window towards the centre, one two-light window under the stack, and another three-light window on the right section. The ground floor has three paned casements, including one on the left end.
The entrance door has four flush panels and is located in a lean-to porch at the angle between the left and right sections under the stack. There is a small rendered lean-to on the left gable end and a single-storey addition to the right, which is partly plain-tiled and partly rendered, with a gabled plain tile roof. The right end of this addition juts forward and has a right gable end stack. The addition features a door with four flush panels and a flat bracketed hood at the left end, with another door towards the right end.
To the rear, there is a narrower parallel range on the left, with a brick ground floor and a weatherboarded first floor on the left gable end, lower eaves, and a plain tile roof that is half-hipped to the left. The interior has only been partially inspected, but some exposed framing is visible on the ground floor, along with chamfered axial beams in the bays to the left and right of the stack. There are brick fireplaces, including one on the left in English bond, featuring a low chamfered bressumer.
Local climate
The Woolpack Inn 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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