781-189, London Road is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
781-189, London Road
- WRENN ID
- young-vestry-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford MP: Tristan Osborne (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 781-189, London Road, East Malling & Larkfield, ME20 6DE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 703 583
- Coordinates
- 51.29841, 0.44145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a row of cottages located at 781-789 London Road, dating from the 18th century, with evidence of an earlier structure in the cottage at the far left, likely from the 16th century. The cottages have timber-framed elevations that are now covered in a mix of painted brick and painted rubble stone. No 789 features exposed framing on both floors, while the first floor has creosoted weather-boarding. The row has a long continuous roof that steps over No 785, with a full hip at the left end and a half-hip at the right end. There is a central stack off-ridge at the front of No 781.
Nos 781-783 are two storeys high with two windows on the first floor, featuring glazing bar sashes. There is a 20th-century shop front on the ground floor to the right, along with a 20th-century glazed door to the right, both covered by a continuous hood. A large segment-headed casement window is located at the extreme right.
Nos 785-789 are also two storeys high, displaying irregular fenestration with four windows on the first floor and five on the ground floor. The windows include a mix of sliding and hung casements, glazing bar sashes, and non-opening windows with lattice on the glazing bars. There are double boarded loft doors on the first floor at the extreme right, and boarded half-glazed doors on the ground floor to the left and right, as well as one off-centre to the left. A decorated wooden lintel is positioned over the right-hand doorway.
Local climate
781-189, London Road 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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