The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1987. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-loggia-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, 21, South Street, Barming
- OS grid reference
- TQ 725 543
- Coordinates
- 51.26222, 0.47102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house located on South Street in Barming. It features a mid-19th century facade that likely covers a building from the 17th or early 18th century. The exterior is made of painted brick, with the left gable end rendered. The house has a plain tile roof and stands two storeys high with an attic, set on a painted stone plinth. It has a bracketed eaves cornice and a half-hipped roof, topped with a central brick chimney stack and two hipped dormers. The front is arranged with three windows, each containing 4-pane sashes with horns, set in open boxes. The central entrance has a panelled door topped by a semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars, and is sheltered by a consoled hood that features a broken-based triangular pediment. At the rear, there is a lean-to addition, and to the left, a low single-storey L-plan extension with two half-glazed doors. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Cottage 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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