578-580, London Road is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
578-580, London Road
- WRENN ID
- sharp-barrel-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 578-580, London Road, Ditton, ME20 6BX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 710 584
- Coordinates
- 51.29986, 0.45195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a possible hall-house, now comprising a pair of cottages, dating to the 15th century with 18th-century re-cladding. It is timber-framed and has red and blue brick elevations, slightly set back to the right with a raised plat band. The roof is hipped and tiled, with a gablet to the left and a tall brick stack projecting from the left side. The two-storey front has an irregular two-window arrangement with casement windows. The central entrance, serving number 578, features a boarded door and a flat hood supported by iron brackets. A second entrance, at the left-hand end serving number 580, has a boarded door within a projecting brick porch. A two-storey wing from the 16th century extends to the rear, displaying exposed timber framing and brick infill. Various red brick additions from the 19th and 20th centuries are also present at the rear of the property.
Local climate
578-580, London Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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