The Cedars is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A Georgian House.
The Cedars
- WRENN ID
- upper-keep-onyx
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Cedars, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 880 329
- Coordinates
- 51.06472, 0.68254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cedars is an 18th-century building located on Smallhythe Road. It is a two-storey structure with a basement, constructed of red brick. The hipped roof features a modillion eaves cornice. The façade includes five sash windows with intact glazing bars. Access to the porch is via seven steps, which are flanked by two reeded pilasters and two Roman Composite columns. There is a blocked semi-circular fanlight above the entrance and two wrought iron railings. The south front has a curved bay with three windows on both floors, topped with a castellated parapet.
Local climate
The Cedars 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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