Robinia Cottage and Purfields is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1972. House. 1 related planning application.
Robinia Cottage and Purfields
- WRENN ID
- second-joist-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Robinia Cottage and Purfields, Ashford Road, Tenterden, TN30 6BT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 889 345
- Coordinates
- 51.07961, 0.69551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Robinia Cottage, along with Purfields on Ox Lane in St Michaels, is an 18th-century timber-framed building. It has an L-shaped design and stands two storeys tall with attics. The exterior is weatherboarded, although part of the ground floor features exposed timber-framing with brick infill. The roof is half-hipped and tiled, topped with a central brick chimney stack. The building has three casement windows and a hipped tiled porch. Robinia Cottage and Purfields form a group with The Fat Ox Public House.
Local climate
Robinia Cottage and Purfields sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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