Well Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. House. 5 related planning applications.
Well Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-lantern-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Well Cottage, Taylors Hill, Chilham, CT4 8BZ
- OS grid reference
- TR 067 536
- Coordinates
- 51.24408, 0.96112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, specifically 1549, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed with a timber frame, featuring painted brick infill and a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys set on a brick plinth, and it includes a continuous first-floor jetty. The roof has a 19th-century gable on the left side and a hip on the right, with an end stack on the left and another stack at the rear right. The structure has a two-bay frame with curved tension braces and irregular window placements, consisting of two 20th-century casements on the first floor and three on the ground floor. The central doorway is a 20th-century plank and stud design set within a 16th-century chamfered pointed arched opening. There is also a date and name plaque on the left side elevation.
Local climate
Well Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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