Wimborne Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Wimborne Cottage
- WRENN ID
- distant-panel-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wimborne Cottage, High Street, Staplehurst, TN12 0AU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 785 430
- Coordinates
- 51.15872, 0.5527
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wimborne Cottage is a house, formerly a house and shop, dating from the 16th century or earlier, with alterations from the 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed, with a red brick ground floor and a weatherboarded first floor, topped by a plain tile roof. It consists of approximately three timber-framed bays, likely extending further to the left, and is two storeys high. The gabled structure features slightly projecting wall-plate ends and verges. The left gable end has an arch-braced tie-beam and a plain crown-post supported by one foot brace. A collar purlin continues to the collar between the projecting verges. There is a multiple brick ridge stack located to the left of centre. The windows are irregularly arranged, with four casements, some of which are leaded; there are three 3-light casements and one 2-light casement under the stack. A ribbed door is positioned up two steps under the stack. There is also a rear lean-to. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Wimborne 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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