Romden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. A C18 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Romden Cottage

WRENN ID
distant-stair-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Romden Cottage, Romden Road, Smarden, TN27 8RA
OS grid reference
TQ 897 421
Coordinates
51.14719, 0.71104
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Romden Cottage is a 18th-century building that was formerly used as stables for Romden Castle. It is two storeys high and constructed of red brick, topped with a hipped tiled roof. The cottage features a modillion eaves cornice and has unusual windows. In the centre of the ground floor, there is a segmental-headed archway.

Local climate

Romden Cottage 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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