Willow Grove is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. House. 5 related planning applications.
Willow Grove
- WRENN ID
- endless-timber-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Willow Grove, Lees Road, Yalding, ME18 6HB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 695 499
- Coordinates
- 51.22317, 0.42686
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th-century house, built around 1800, with additions from the early 19th century and the mid-19th century. The front section is painted brick with a slate roof, while the rear section is built of red and grey brick with a plain tile roof. The house originally comprised a single block, with a parallel front range added around 1800. There are further additions – one in the early 19th century to the left end of the front range, and another in the mid-19th century to the left end of the rear range. The house has two storeys and an attic.
The front elevation has a chamfered brick plinth and a plat band to the section built around 1800. A plain parapet runs along the top. A visible straight joint in the brickwork wall is located to the left of the centre. The roof is gabled over each section, with projecting brick gable end stacks to the front range. Three flat-roofed dormers, each containing paned windows, are visible in the roof. The front has a regular three-window arrangement with sixteen-pane sash windows. One window, located on the left, lacks a frieze and cornice, with painted brick or mathematical tiles between it and the first floor. A similar painted brick or tile bow is located beneath the right window, incorporating a later 19th-century flat-roofed rectangular ground-floor bay window. The central entrance features half-glazed and panelled double doors, sheltered by a flat bracketed hood, which leads up three stone steps.
The rear elevation of the late 18th-century section has a dentil brick eaves cornice and two hipped dormers. The windows are arranged in a regular three-window pattern, comprising two three-light and a central two-light leaded casements with segmental heads to the ground-floor windows. A single-storey red brick bakehouse is located to the rear, with a plain tile roof that is hipped to the left and gabled with a stack to the right. A weatherboarded section with a plain tile roof sits between the bakehouse and the main house.
Inside, the doors have two broad panels, and there are iron grates and niches flanking the fireplace. The house contains walled staircases. The late 18th-century section has a roof with staggered purlins, while the section built around 1800 has a ceiled roof with long raking windbraces.
Local climate
Willow Grove receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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