Hope Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
Hope Cottages
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hope Cottages, 1-4, Walnut Tree Lane, Loose, ME15 9RG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 761 524
- Coordinates
- 51.24373, 0.5228
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hope Cottages is a row of three houses, built in the early to mid-19th century, likely around 1840. The ground floor is constructed of coursed ragstone, while the first floor is weatherboarded. The roof is slate-covered. The cottages have two storeys and feature two buff brick ridge stacks, one positioned towards each end. The front has a regular facade with four windows, each containing twelve panes of glazing in casement frames. The ground-floor windows have segmental heads. There are four boarded doors, each with a segmental head, located at the left end (No. 1), centrally (Nos. 2 and 3), and the right end (No. 4). A narrow, later, two-storey range extends parallel to the rear. The interior remains unexamined.
Local climate
Hope Cottages 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.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 14 transactions since 1997
- 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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