Cowstead is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1984. House.
Cowstead
- WRENN ID
- night-spire-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cowstead, Cowstead Lane, Stockbury
- OS grid reference
- TQ 840 626
- Coordinates
- 51.33342, 0.6412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cowstead is a house that dates back to the 15th century or earlier. It features a timber frame with the ground floor rendered and the first floor pebbledashed. The roof, which was added in the 20th century, is covered with plain tiles and has a steep pitch that is half-hipped at the right end. There is a slightly off-centre multiple brick ridge stack on the roof and a small hipped dormer on the left end. The windows include one 2-light leaded casement on the left end and an early 19th-century tripartite sash to the right of it. A panelled door is located beneath the stack. To the right, there is a short rear wing that is two storeys tall and constructed with the same materials.
Local climate
Cowstead sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
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