Kitchen Garden Wall and the Bothy to the North of Mereworth Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1985. Garden wall, cottage.

Kitchen Garden Wall and the Bothy to the North of Mereworth Castle

WRENN ID
stubborn-balcony-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tonbridge and Malling
Constituency
Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1985
Type
Garden wall, cottage
OS grid reference
TQ 670 538
Coordinates
51.25935, 0.39285
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The kitchen garden wall and The Bothy, located to the north of Mereworth Castle, is a Grade II listed structure. The kitchen garden wall is made of red brick and forms a complete rectangle, dating from the late 18th century on the inside of the wall to the east. The Bothy is a cottage built in the mid to late 19th century. It features a red brick ground floor and a rendered first floor, topped with a thatched roof that has a tiled catslide to the north. The building is two storeys high and includes first-floor lead cone-roofed turrets on brackets at the southeast and southwest corners. The windows are diamond lattice casements. In the northeast corner of the wall, there is a single-storey red brick gardener's cottage with a slate roof, which has two windows and a central boarded door.

Local climate

Kitchen Garden Wall and the Bothy to the North of Mereworth Castle 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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