Wesley Chapel, Wesley Cottage and Holly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Chapel and cottages. 4 related planning applications.

Wesley Chapel, Wesley Cottage and Holly Cottage

WRENN ID
burning-loft-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swale
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 November 1984
Type
Chapel and cottages
Address
Wesley Chapel, Wesley Cottage and Holly Cottage, Silver Street, Bredgar, ME9 8ES
OS grid reference
TQ 877 603
Coordinates
51.31166, 0.69225
Source
Historic England listing

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

Description

Wesley Chapel, Wesley Cottage, and Holly Cottage are a Methodist chapel and two adjacent cottages, now used as a house and store room. The chapel dates from the late 18th century and features a timber frame clad with weatherboard and a plain tile roof. It is a single storey building with a hipped roof and two glazing bar sash windows. Inside, there is a panelled gallery and fittings.

To the right of the chapel is Wesley Cottage, which is also timber framed, clad in weatherboard, and has a slate roof. This cottage has two storeys and an attic, with one wood casement window on each floor and a six-panelled door to the right.

To the right of Wesley Cottage is Holly Cottage, an 18th-century painted brick cottage with a plain tile roof. It has one storey and an attic, featuring four hipped dormers and a central stack. There are three wood casement windows and a central doorway, which was being rebuilt at the time of the resurvey, along with garage doors to the right.

Local climate

Wesley Chapel, Wesley Cottage and Holly Cottage 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 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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.

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 7 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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