Shepherd's Cottage Shepherd's House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. House pair. 3 related planning applications.
Shepherd's Cottage Shepherd's House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-spandrel-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1988
- Type
- House pair
- Address
- Shepherd's Cottage Shepherd's House, Forge Hill, Aldington, TN25 7DT
- OS grid reference
- TR 061 362
- Coordinates
- 51.08872, 0.94168
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shepherd’s Cottage and Shepherd’s House are a pair of houses dating from the late 18th century. They are timber-framed with a ground floor of red and blue chequered brick and a tile-hung first floor. The main roof is hipped, with a stack to the left. The windows are regularly placed sashes with vertical glazing bars; the front has two sashes on each floor, a central panelled door with a cornice hood, and a wooden casement above the door. To the left of the door are two shallow bays on the ground floor. The right-hand return features double carriage doors with a cambered head and a multi-paned casement leading to workshop/store rooms. The left-hand cottage was altered in the late 20th century, but was originally built to the same design. The pair are included in the list for their group value.
Local climate
Shepherd's Cottage Shepherd's House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% 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 2000
- 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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