Water Lane Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1986. House row. 1 related planning application.
Water Lane Cottages
- WRENN ID
- second-lead-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1986
- Type
- House row
- Address
- Water Lane Cottages, 1 and 2, Headcorn, TN27 9JN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 823 437
- Coordinates
- 51.16373, 0.60644
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Water Lane Cottages is a house, now a row of houses, with an early 19th century facade that may cover an earlier building. The right section was added in the later 19th century. The ground floor features red brick in Flemish bond on the left section and a chequered pattern of red and grey brick on the right. The first floor is weatherboarded, and the gable ends are tile-hung. The roof is covered with plain tiles and the building has two storeys plus a garret. There is a projecting brick stack at the rear of the left gable, a brick ridge stack that was likely originally projecting but is now positioned to the right of center, and a projecting rear stack on the right. The windows are irregularly arranged with three casements: one 2-light and one 3-light on the left section, and one 3-light on the right. There is a boarded door to No. 2 towards the left end, and the door to No. 1 is located at the rear to the right. The building was formerly known as Cranmore Cottages.
Local climate
Water Lane Cottages 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- 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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