Knockwood is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. House.
Knockwood
- WRENN ID
- over-sill-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Knockwood, Knockwood Lane, Molash
- OS grid reference
- TR 018 518
- Coordinates
- 51.23036, 0.88982
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knockwood is a house dating from the late 17th century. It is timber framed and covered in weatherboard, topped with a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys set on a brick plinth, featuring a hipped roof with a chimney located at the centre right and another at the left end, which extends into a projecting catslide outshot. The first floor has three 20th-century wood casement windows, while the ground floor has one wood casement window and a boarded door to the left.
Local climate
Knockwood 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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