Old School Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. House, school. 5 related planning applications.
Old School Cottages
- WRENN ID
- woven-hinge-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1952
- Type
- House, school
- Address
- Old School Cottages, Clare Lane, East Malling & Larkfield, ME19 6BN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 695 574
- Coordinates
- 51.2909, 0.43042
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A house and school, dating to 1781 and now used as offices, constructed of limewashed brick. The building has a plain tiled roof with corbelled brick eaves and a part catslide outshut to the rear. There are end stacks and two stacks off-ridge to the rear, right of centre. The front features two small hipped dormers on the left. It is two storeys high with an irregular fenestration of six windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor, with a smaller central window. There are two panelled doors with moulded, flat projecting hoods, one bay in from each end. A 20th-century extension is present at the rear, but is not listed. A plaque with inscriptions in Latin and Greek is positioned in the centre of the first floor, and below it is another plaque stating that the house and school, along with a building at Leybourne, were built and endowed at the sole expense of the Reverend Edward Holme, Vicar of Birling.
Local climate
Old School Cottages receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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 1999
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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