Godfrey House is a Grade II* listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1952. House. 5 related planning applications.
Godfrey House
- WRENN ID
- hidden-hall-sorrel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Godfrey House, Eyhorne Street, Hollingbourne, ME17 1TX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 837 547
- Coordinates
- 51.26249, 0.63248
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Godfrey House is a late 16th-century house that was restored in 1859. It features a timber frame with plaster infilling and a plain tile roof, built on a stone plinth. The house has a lobby entry plan and consists of two storeys and attics. The ground floor showcases close studding, while the first floor has studs at the corners and flanking the windows. Ogee tension braces are present on the first floor and dormers.
There is a continuous jetty with a moulded bressumer, and a projecting porch located to the left of the centre. This porch is two storeys high with an attic, jettied at the front on the first floor and on three sides, supported by moulded dragon posts at the wall-plate level of the house and at the eaves level of the dormer. The attic also jetties out at the left gable end.
A brick ridge stack with four octagonal corbelled flues is positioned to the left of centre, while a projecting brick stack with octagonal corbelled flues is located at the right gable end. The house features three eaves dormers with jettied gables—one to the left and two to the right of the porch—each containing a two-light mullioned window. Above the porch, there is a three-light mullioned window in the gable.
On the first floor, there is a prominent ten-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed oriel window with a moulded cornice and a plastered ogee base located directly below each eaves dormer, along with a six-light window in the first floor of the porch. The ground floor has three rectangular bays, each with ten-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed windows set on stone bases. The porch features a ribbed door and a tablet above the door inscribed with "Godfrey House. Built 1587, restored 1859." The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Godfrey House 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- 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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