Calico House is a Grade II* listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. House. 8 related planning applications.

Calico House

WRENN ID
rusted-footing-coral
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Swale
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1952
Type
House
Address
Calico House, the Street, Newnham, ME9 0LN
OS grid reference
TQ 952 576
Coordinates
51.28419, 0.79788
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Calico House is a house dating from the 16th and 18th centuries, mentioned as "new" in the will of Stephen Hulkes in 1617. It features a timber frame that is underbuilt with red brick, showcasing exposed close studding with plaster infill and painted plastering. The roof is plain tiled and hipped, with gablets and stacks that project to the right end and forward to the centre right.

The house has two storeys, with the upper floor adorned with calico-coloured paintings of scrolled floral designs emerging from vases, arranged in three panels across the front and one panel on the right return, dated 1710. The first floor has four metal casements, while the ground floor has three casements and a door with eight ribbed panels set in a moulded four-centred arched surround within a gabled porch. The interior features a turned baluster screen, a partial survival of a screens passage with a chamfered arched service door, and a newel staircase.

There are rib and stud doors in moulded surrounds, wainscotting in the parlour with a moulded wooden mantel beam, and two stone mantel and chimney pieces. The downstairs mantel is supported by balustrade pilasters and features three panels separated by terms, with a cornice decorated with animals and flowers and the initials S.H. The upstairs mantel has a similar arrangement but features semi-circular heads to the panels and lacks a carved cornice. Additionally, there is fragmentary wall painting that imitates wainscot and depicts religious scenes. The house has a crown post roof.

Calico House may have served as a public house in 1710 and later became the Parsonage.

Local climate

Calico House 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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.

More on this building

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 8 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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