Church Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. A C17 Cottage pair. 1 related planning application.

Church Cottages

WRENN ID
noble-wicket-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 August 1984
Type
Cottage pair
Address
Church Cottages, Church Lane, Challock, TN25 4DB
OS grid reference
TR 010 492
Coordinates
51.20746, 0.87693
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Cottages is a pair of cottages that were formerly a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century. The building features a timber frame that has been refaced in the 19th century with red brick and has a 20th-century plain tile roof. It stands two storeys high on a brick plinth and has a hipped roof with a central stack. There are four windows with Dering lights, alternating between two and three lights, and strainer arches above the ground floor windows. The building has two doors: one is located at the extreme left in a semi-circular opening, and the other is below the third window, set in a gabled brick porch in front of the stack. There is some evidence of 17th-century brickwork visible in the side elevation.

Local climate

Church Cottages 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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