Westerhill is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Westerhill

WRENN ID
inner-pedestal-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 May 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Westerhill, Westerhill Road, Coxheath, ME17 4BT
OS grid reference
TQ 740 506
Coordinates
51.22853, 0.49187
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a farmhouse, likely dating back to the 15th or early 16th century, with a later 18th-century facade. The structure is timber framed and exhibits a mix of materials. The ground floor is constructed of chequered red and grey brick, while the first floor is clad with boarding designed to resemble rusticated masonry. It has a plain tile roof. The building may originally have been a Wealden house, featuring jetties, with the addition of a narrow left hall bay built out later to align with the left-hand bay. It is two storeys and has an attic. A brick plinth sits on a stone base, and the boarding indicates a higher midrail on the right hall bay. The roof is hipped. A brick ridge stack, with stone below the roof line, is situated on the probable left hall bay, and a smaller rear stack is towards the right end. The eaves of the recessed right hall bay are raised to form a gable, boarded on the first floor and containing a two-light attic casement. The fenestration is irregular, featuring four sash windows: three with 16 panes and one with 12 panes, all in open boxes. Similar windows are present on the ground floor. A panelled front door, located beneath the stack below the second window from the left, has a patterned rectangular fanlight, plain pilasters and a flat, bracketed hood. A 18th-century red and grey brick return wing extends to the left rear, and a 18th-century weatherboarded stair turret is in the re-entrant angle. A lean-to addition is situated at the rear of the main range. The interior features shutter grooves on the first floor at the right gable end and the rear wall of the right end bay. There are changes in first-floor levels across the centre of the building. A modillioned 18th-century cornice is found in the ground-floor right end room. Chamfered beams, an 18th-century cornice and a corner cupboard are present in the ground-floor room of the wing.

Local climate

Westerhill receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% 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 — 3 transactions since 2002
  • 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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