The Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1987. House.
The Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- last-hammer-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Church Cottage, West Street, Hunton
- OS grid reference
- TQ 723 497
- Coordinates
- 51.22099, 0.46714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church Cottage is a former poor house, now a residential property, built in the early 19th century, around 1840. It is constructed of random ragstone and features a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and a gabled design, with a central buff brick ridge stack that is corbelled and filleted. The front facade has a regular arrangement of two windows on each floor, with 2-light casements. The ground-floor windows are adorned with stone voussoirs and slight keystones. There is one window on each floor of the left gable end, while the rear wall overlooks the churchyard and has no windows. The central entrance features a ribbed door, also with voussoirs and keystones. Above the door, there is a slightly recessed rectangular panel in the centre of the first floor. The interior has not been inspected. A print from 1794 indicates that a thatched timber-framed house existed on this site prior to the current structure.
Local climate
The Church 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.
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