Doves Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Doves Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-joist-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Doves Cottage, Smiths Hill, West Farleigh, ME15 0PG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 713 525
- Coordinates
- 51.24657, 0.45298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Doves Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century, with later alterations. The front elevation features a chequered pattern of red and grey brick, while the first floor of the right gable end is weatherboarded. The building has a plain tile roof and consists of two storeys and an attic, topped with a half-hipped roof. There are projecting gable end stacks made of red and grey brick, and two gabled two-light dormers. The front has a regular arrangement of three windows, including two three-light casements and one central two-light casement, all with segmental heads on the ground floor. The central door has four flush panels, two top lights, and a flat bracketed hood. At the rear, there is a lean-to. The interior has not been inspected. Doves Cottage appears in a 1719 print of West Farleigh Hall, published in Country Life on September 21, 1967. It was formerly known as Smith's Cottage or Ivy Cottage.
Local climate
Doves 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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