Luton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House. 1 related planning application.

Luton Cottage

WRENN ID
grey-steeple-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swale
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1967
Type
House
Address
Luton Cottage, Selling Street, ME13 9RQ
OS grid reference
TR 040 565
Coordinates
51.27158, 0.92393
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Luton Cottage is a house dating from the 15th century, with cladding from the 18th century. It features a timber frame with exposed close-studding and plaster infill on the right wing, while the rest is clad in red brick. The roof is plain tiled and the building is designed as a hall house with a jettied cross-wing. It stands two storeys high with a hipped roof that includes gablets, and has a projecting hipped wing to the right supported by dragon posts. There is a central stack and a hipped semi-dormer to the left. The windows are irregularly arranged, consisting of three wooden casement windows, with one located in the outshot at the right end. The doors are boarded, with a hipped hood over the central door and another at the right end. There is also a weatherboarded outshot on the left.

Local climate

Luton Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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