The Smithy Tudor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Smithy Tudor Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-barrel-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Smithy Tudor Cottage, the Square, Chilham, CT4 8BY
- OS grid reference
- TR 068 535
- Coordinates
- 51.24401, 0.96225
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century cottage pair, later altered in the 20th century. It has a timber frame construction, with a red brick plinth and a plain tile roof. The cottage is two storeys and an attic high, built on a plinth, with the first floor projecting. A hip roof projects to the right, and a smaller hip and hipped dormer breaks the roofline to the left. A central rear stack provides additional chimney provision. The façade is three bays wide, featuring irregular 20th-century wood mullioned casement windows. A four-light segmental oriel window, supported on brackets, sits in the right-hand bay, and below it is a brick mullioned segmental bay window that breaks the line of the overhanging first floor. Central entrances are provided by 20th-century porches.
Local climate
The Smithy Tudor Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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