7 Paradise Cottages and the Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. A C17 House. 2 related planning applications.
7 Paradise Cottages and the Old Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- distant-bonework-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP: Kevin McKenna (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- 7 Paradise Cottages and the Old Farmhouse, Lower Hartlip Road, Hartlip, ME9 7SU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 843 643
- Coordinates
- 51.34836, 0.6456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 7 Paradise Cottages and The Old Farmhouse is a house that was originally a pair of cottages, dating from the 17th century. It is constructed of red brick in English bond and has a plain tiled roof. The building stands two storeys high on a plinth, featuring a hipped roof and a stack on the left side. On the first floor, there are three glazing bar sash windows, while the ground floor has two wooden casements with brick labels above them. The central entrance consists of a half-glazed door set beneath an iron-roofed gabled porch. The left side of the building shows evidence of blocked brick mullioned windows.
Local climate
7 Paradise Cottages and the Old Farmhouse 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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