Kingpost is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. A C15 House. 5 related planning applications.
Kingpost
- WRENN ID
- tattered-pedestal-oak
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kingpost, 77, High Street, Rolvenden, TN17 4LP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 844 315
- Coordinates
- 51.05395, 0.63024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kingpost is a 15th-century timber-framed house located on Rolvenden High Street. It has two storeys, with plaster infilling and some close-studding on the ground floor, while the first floor is weatherboarded and overhangs on brackets. The house features a steeply pitched hipped tiled roof, three casement windows, and a small bay window on the ground floor. At the northern end, there is an 18th-century addition with one window bay made of painted brick, and beyond this is an 18th-century workshop, which is no longer used as such. This workshop is two storeys high, faced with weatherboarding, has a tiled roof, and includes a long continuous window with many panes on the first floor.
Local climate
Kingpost sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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