The Mounted Rifleman is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1986. A C18 Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Mounted Rifleman
- WRENN ID
- waning-chancel-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1986
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Mounted Rifleman, Luddenham, ME13 0TL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 981 627
- Coordinates
- 51.32942, 0.84276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mounted Rifleman is a public house dating from the 18th century. It features a red and blue chequered brick façade and a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, along with a basement. It has a plinth and a corbelled brick eaves cornice beneath a half-hipped roof, which includes two hipped dormers and a central chimney stack. On the ground floor, there are two wooden casement windows with segmental heads, and a central entrance door with four panels and a flat hood above. The basement has an opening to the left.
Local climate
The Mounted Rifleman 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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