The Wheel House (Junior Common Room) Walls and Gates Attached is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1957. A C15 Common room.
The Wheel House (Junior Common Room) Walls and Gates Attached
- WRENN ID
- graven-pinnacle-magpie
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1957
- Type
- Common room
- Address
- The Wheel House (Junior Common Room) Walls and Gates Attached, High Street, Wye with Hinxhill
- OS grid reference
- TR 054 468
- Coordinates
- 51.18378, 0.93898
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wheel House, originally a brewhouse and now serving as a junior common room, dates back to the 15th century and has been restored and extended in the 20th century. It is constructed from ragstone rubble and features a plain tiled roof. The building is a single-storey rectangular block with a hipped roof, a stack on the west side, and louvre-dormers. The south-facing road front includes a triple arched window. Inside, the roof is supported by two large plain crown posts that are braced to ties and a collar purlin.
On the road front, there is a rubble wall to the left, approximately 5 feet high and about 30 yards long, leading to the Latin School, which includes an arched gateway and a stepped gable. To the right, there is an iron gate set in a four-centred arched gateway with a label hood and raised surround. Beyond this is an early 20th-century hipped outhouse made of rubble with a tiled roof.
Local climate
The Wheel House (Junior Common Room) Walls and Gates Attached sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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