The Walnut Tree Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. Public house. 2 related planning applications.

The Walnut Tree Public House

WRENN ID
pitched-marble-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 October 1987
Type
Public house
Address
The Walnut Tree Public House, Yalding Hill, ME18 6JB
OS grid reference
TQ 699 503
Coordinates
51.22665, 0.43198
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Walnut Tree Public House is a 16th-century public house located on Yalding Hill. It is timber framed with rendered infilling and has a plain tile roof. The building consists of four timber-framed bays and is two storeys high with an attic, sitting on a stone plinth. The studding is broadly spaced and made of relatively thin scantling, featuring two tension braces in the left end bay and an arch brace in the right-central bay on the first floor. There are two arch braces on the ground floor and a gable end jetty on the left side. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped, with a brick ridge stack at the right end of the right-central bay.

The fenestration is irregular, comprising three leaded casements: a two-light window in the left end bay, a three-light window in the left-central bay, and another three-light window in the right end bay. There is a boarded door located at the left end of the right-central bay. A red and grey brick lean-to is present at the left gable end, underpinning the jetty and featuring a boarded door at the front. Additionally, there is a single-storey addition to the right, which has applied timber framing and rendered infilling. The interior has only been partly inspected, but it includes exposed framing and a brick fireplace with a wooden bressumer.

Local climate

The Walnut Tree Public House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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