Fir Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Fir Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- watchful-hall-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fir Tree Cottage, 28, the Quarries, Boughton Monchelsea, ME17 4NJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 771 516
- Coordinates
- 51.23676, 0.5356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Tree Cottage is a 17th-century house located in Boughton Monchelsea. It features a timber frame with plaster infilling and has a plain tile roof. The building follows a lobby entry plan with two timber-framed bays and a central stack bay. It stands two storeys tall on a rendered plinth and has broadly-spaced studding. The roof is half-hipped on the left side and hipped on the right, with gablets. A large central brick stack is positioned on the front slope of the roof. The cottage has irregular fenestration, consisting of three casements: one two-light window in each outer bay and a small light located under the stack. The entrance is a boarded door with a shallow flat hood situated beneath the stack. To the right, there is a timber-framed lean-to. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Fir Tree Cottage 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings