Abbey Cottage Including Forecourt Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. House. 3 related planning applications.
Abbey Cottage Including Forecourt Wall
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-chimney-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbey Cottage Including Forecourt Wall, 55, Swan Street, West Malling, ME19 6LW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 681 577
- Coordinates
- 51.29438, 0.41098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Cottage, including the forecourt wall, is an 18th-century house located on Swan Street in West Malling. The building is constructed of red brick on a deep stone plinth, with the front covered in stucco and featuring end quoins. It has a tiled roof with end brick chimneystacks and consists of two storeys and attics, with five windows. The roof is adorned with two hipped dormers that have 6-pane sash windows. The main façade includes five 12-pane sash windows with cambered heads. The central entrance features an open pedimented doorcase with a semi-circular fanlight, panelled reveals, and a six-panelled door. The right side elevation is partially tile-hung. The forecourt wall stands about 0.7 meters high and is topped with iron spear railings and urn finials.
Local climate
Abbey Cottage Including Forecourt Wall 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 — 3 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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