Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. House, warehouse.
Lilac Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eastward-rood-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1968
- Type
- House, warehouse
- Address
- Lilac Cottage, Eyhorne Street, Hollingbourne, ME17 1TR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 832 546
- Coordinates
- 51.26176, 0.62574
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lilac Cottage is a house, now serving as both a residence and a warehouse, dating from the late 18th century, with the warehouse added in the late 19th or early 20th century. The building is constructed of painted brick, with a weatherboarded gable on the warehouse section. It features a plain tile roof and has a narrow, slightly projecting gabled bay for the warehouse on the right end. The structure is two storeys tall, set on a painted stone plinth, with a plain band above each ground-floor window. The house has a hipped roof, with the left hip returning, and the warehouse has plain bargeboards. There is a brick stack on the left gable end and a rear stack on the right. The front has a regular arrangement of two windows, featuring three-light leaded casements, with the ground-floor windows having segmental heads. The central entrance is a panelled door beneath a flat corniced hood. The warehouse has a tall ribbed door on the first floor, accompanied by a contiguous 12-pane sash window, and double doors at the ground floor. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lilac Cottage 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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