Manor Cottages and Pump Attached is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. Barn. 2 related planning applications.
Manor Cottages and Pump Attached
- WRENN ID
- third-tower-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1968
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Manor Cottages and Pump Attached, 71, High Street, Headcorn, TN27 9QA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 835 441
- Coordinates
- 51.16752, 0.6244
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Cottages and the attached pump are a house, originally a barn, dating from the 16th century or earlier. The building was converted into cottages in the 18th century and altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The left section is of painted brick, while the right section has painted brick to the ground floor and banded plain and fishscale tiles to the first floor. It has a plain tile roof. The building comprises three timber-framed bays with a rear aisle, and later lean-tos. It is two storeys and has attics. The left section features a dentilled brick eaves cornice, and a steeply pitched hipped roof. Brick stacks are visible on the front slope of the roof towards the left end and within the lean-to at the right end of the right section. Two hipped dormers are present. The fenestration is irregular, with four casements; two two-light casements to the left section and one two-light and one single-light to the right section. A small canted bay window is located towards the centre. A ribbed door is at the left end of the right section, with a blocked door at the left end. End lean-tos are present. A central hipped rear stair turret, thought to have been a porch to the barn, is a notable feature. A small iron pump is situated against the right side of the front elevation, originally positioned on the south side of High Street. The interior reveals exposed timber framing, curved passing shores to the rear aisle, jowled principal posts, chamfered beams and joists, and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
Manor Cottages and Pump Attached 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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