Poplar Tree Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. Farmhouse, cottages.

Poplar Tree Cottages

WRENN ID
kindled-keep-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 December 1985
Type
Farmhouse, cottages
Address
Poplar Tree Cottages, Windmill Hill, Ulcombe
OS grid reference
TQ 853 487
Coordinates
51.20779, 0.65274
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Poplar Tree Cottages is a farmhouse that has been converted into cottages. It dates from the 17th century or earlier, with a later 19th-century facade. The building is timber framed, with the front elevation covered in thick bands of plain and fishscale tiles. The right gable end is weatherboarded, and it has a plain tile roof. The structure is two storeys tall, sitting on a stone plinth, and features a boxed wood eaves cornice. The roof is half-hipped with gablets. There is a slender projecting brick stack on the left gable end and an off-centre ridge stack on the right. The windows are irregularly arranged and consist of three 6-pane glazing-bar sashes. A recessed panelled door, framed by plain pilasters, a frieze, and a pediment, is located between the left and central windows. There is a blocked doorway beneath the stack and a 20th-century glazed door on the right gable end. The building has later two-storey rear extensions on both the right and left sides. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Poplar Tree Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% 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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