St Mary's Abbey Guesthouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1959. A C14 Guesthouse.

St Mary's Abbey Guesthouse

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tonbridge and Malling
Constituency
Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 August 1959
Type
Guesthouse
Address
St Mary's Abbey Guesthouse, Swan Street, West Malling, ME19 6JX
OS grid reference
TQ 682 576
Coordinates
51.29356, 0.41153
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Mary's Abbey Guesthouse is a guesthouse that was originally part of a 14th-century hospice. It was later used for stabling and has undergone alterations and extensions in the early 19th century and early 20th century. The ground floor is constructed of stone rubble with ashlar quoins and stone chip galleting, featuring a deep plinth. The first floor is cement rendered, and the building has a tiled roof with stone chimneystacks.

On the first floor, there is a continuous window with 20 lights and cinquefoil heads, of which 12 are blocked. The ground floor includes three early 19th-century triple windows and two larger windows that were once doorways. The right side elevation has two buttresses and a five-light bay, while a gabled stone porch was added to the right around 1968.

Attached to the right side is a T-wing made of stone rubble with a tiled roof, which is two storeys high and features cambered-headed casements. Inside, the lounge has cross beams, one of which is supported on a stone corbel, a 20th-century Baronial-style stone fireplace, and a stone arch with a wooden curved settle leading to a curved window. Another room also has a similar stone fireplace. Original timbering is reported at the first-floor level in both the walls and roof, but only the ground floor has been seen.

Local climate

St Mary's Abbey Guesthouse 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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