The White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1993. A Early 19th century Cottage.
The White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-grate-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1993
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Address
- The White Cottage, West Street, West Malling
- OS grid reference
- TQ 679 577
- Coordinates
- 51.29433, 0.40754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located on the east side of West Street in West Malling. It is constructed of painted brick and features a slate roof with end brick chimneystacks. The building stands two storeys high and has two windows along with one window space. At the top, there is a parapet with stone coping. The upper floor has two 12-pane sash windows set in moulded architraves, while the ground floor features a flat wooden weather hood supported by brackets. The original door is a six-panelled design with reeded detailing, where the top two panels are glazed and divided into four sections.
Local climate
The White Cottage 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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