Monkery is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. A C17 House.
Monkery
- WRENN ID
- half-hearth-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Monkery, Pluckley Road, Bethersden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 914 416
- Coordinates
- 51.14238, 0.73512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Monkery is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed building located on Pluckley Road in Bethersden. The first floor is mostly covered in plaster, while the ground floor has been rebuilt in red brick. The building features a hipped tiled roof at the south end. There are three casement windows with small square leaded panes, and an original blocked window on the first floor that has wooden mullions. The entrance includes a doorcase with a door made up of six fielded panels.
Local climate
Monkery 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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