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
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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