Blacksmith's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1984. A Medieval House. 3 related planning applications.

Blacksmith's Cottage

WRENN ID
floating-jade-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1984
Type
House
Period
Medieval
Address
Blacksmith's Cottage, the Street, Wormshill, ME9 0TU
OS grid reference
TQ 878 571
Coordinates
51.28225, 0.69196
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blacksmith's Cottage is a house dating from the 15th century, with later 20th-century alterations. It is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a plain tile roof. The building features a Wealden design with two roughly equal bays and a storeyed bay at the left end. The left end has a jetty that is underbuilt but was formerly returned to the left. There is a solid bracket beneath the central tie, with one original and one 20th-century brace supporting the flying wall-plate. The house has a brick stack at the left end and a multiple brick ridge stack towards the right end. The windows are irregularly placed, consisting of two 3-light wood casements. A large 20th-century rendered porch with a boarded door is located at the left end of the hall, and there are 20th-century brick buttresses on the right gable end. Inside, the cottage features exposed timbers, a moulded dais beam with a close-studded partition beneath, a fireplace with moulded stone jambs, and a moulded crown-post.

Local climate

Blacksmith's Cottage 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 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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