Maplesden is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Farmhouse.

Maplesden

WRENN ID
sleeping-obsidian-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 July 1993
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Maplesden, Stepneyford Lane, Benenden
OS grid reference
TQ 835 331
Coordinates
51.06867, 0.61794
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Maplesden is a farmhouse dating from the 18th century, located on Stepneyford Lane in Benenden. The building features ground floor brickwork in Flemish bond with grey headers set on a tall plinth, while the first floor is tile hung. It has a half-hipped tiled roof with an off-central brick chimney stack. The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics and has two windows on the main front, along with an L-wing that is three storeys tall with two windows. The windows are tripartite sashes with glazing bars. There is a central doorcase topped with a flat wooden weather hood, leading to a six-fielded panelled door. At the rear, there is a catslide roof.

Local climate

Maplesden sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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