Vane Court is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. A Medieval House.
Vane Court
- WRENN ID
- vast-chimney-sparrow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Vane Court, Smarden Road, Biddenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 858 404
- Coordinates
- 51.13335, 0.65551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vane Court is a 15th-century timber-framed Wealden hall-house located on Smarden Road in Biddenden. The building features plaster infilling and curved braces, standing two storeys tall with attics. The end window bays on the first floor extend over the protruding ends of the floor joists and brackets. The central recessed portion has overhanging eaves supported at each end by a curved brace and in the middle by another pair of braces on a projecting bracket. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped, covered with tiles, and includes two modern hipped dormers. There are four casement windows, and a brick chimney-breast is present on the north wall, with a modern extension built out beyond it on the ground floor. Notably, King Prajadhipok of Siam, who reigned from 1925 to 1935 and abdicated in 1935, lived here for several years. Vane Court is a fine example of a Wealden hall-house, which is not a typical style in Biddenden.
Local climate
Vane Court 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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