The White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Cottage.
The White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pale-cloister-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The White Cottage, Lewd Lane, Smarden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 887 429
- Coordinates
- 51.15481, 0.69749
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Cottage is a building from the 18th century or earlier, located in Smarden on Lewd Lane in Little Biddenden. It has two storeys and is faced with weatherboarding. The roof is tiled, and there is a small wooden bracket eaves cornice. The cottage features four casement windows and a small porch. A red brick chimney breast is present on the west wall.
Local climate
The White Cottage 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% 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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