Grove Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. House.
Grove Cottages
- WRENN ID
- quartered-finial-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grove Cottages, Selling Road, Chilham
- OS grid reference
- TR 065 556
- Coordinates
- 51.26278, 0.95914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Cottages is a house dating from the 16th century. It has a timber frame with exposed and plastered infill on the first floor, while the ground floor is plaster clad, topped with a thatched roof. The building is two storeys high and features a continuous first floor jetty. The roof is hipped, with a free-standing offset stack on the right and an offset projecting end stack with a corbelled brick wall on the left. The windows are irregularly arranged, consisting of two 20th-century casement windows, and there is a 20th-century plank door located to the centre right.
Local climate
Grove Cottages 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 lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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