Castlebank is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1984. A C16 House. 2 related planning applications.
Castlebank
- WRENN ID
- fading-solder-mint
- 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
- Castlebank, Pilgrims Way, Thurnham, ME14 3LD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 806 578
- Coordinates
- 51.29153, 0.58919
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castlebank is a house that dates from the 16th century and the late 18th century, consisting of two parallel ranges. The front range, built in the late 18th century, is made of red brick in Flemish bond with a rendered left gable end and a plain tile roof. It stands two storeys high on a stone plinth and features a dentilled brick eaves cornice, with the roof hipped at both ends. There is a central brick ridge stack that is off-centre to the left. The right end may have been rebuilt or refronted in the same style. The front has a regular arrangement of three windows, all of which are glazing bar sashes. At the left end, there is a plain door with a segmental arched head, accessed by four steps. To the left, there is a single-storey brick and stone extension that is well recessed.
The rear range dates from the 16th century and is timber framed with plaster infilling and a plain tile roof. It also stands two storeys high on a plinth and features a jetty to the rear and the right end. The structure is close-studded with tension braces, and the right end of the roof is hipped while the left end is gabled. There is one casement window on the first floor of the rear elevation and one on the right end elevation.
Local climate
Castlebank 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- 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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