70, LOWER STONE STREET (See details for further address information) is a Grade II* listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1951. A No explicit period mentioned House.
70, LOWER STONE STREET (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-slate-azure
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1951
- Type
- House
- Period
- No explicit period mentioned
- OS grid reference
- TQ 762 553
- Coordinates
- 51.27049, 0.52515
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 70 on Lower Stone Street, also known as Mile Farm House along with No 4A Knightrider Street, is an interesting restored 15th-century timber-framed building. It features a first floor that jetties out on both the front facing Lower Stone Street and the side facing Knightrider Street, supported by protruding ends of the floor joists, brackets, and a heavy corner post. The building is two storeys tall with attics, having one window facing Upper Stone Street and five windows facing Knightrider Street. The front facing Upper Stone Street showcases curved braces on the first floor and a gable with an attic window. The front facing Knightrider Street has a small central portion that rises above the roof level, topped with a gable and an attic window. The roof is tiled, and there are modern casement windows. There is one blocked original window with wooden mullions on the ground floor of the front facing Knightrider Street. Inside No 70, there is a dragon beam. This building is part of a group with Nos 26 to 36 (even), 40 to 46 (even), and 50 to 70 (even), and it also forms a group with Nos 4A and 6 to 10 (even) Knightrider Street.
Local climate
70, LOWER STONE STREET (See details for further address information) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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