Forstal Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. House. 3 related planning applications.
Forstal Gate
- WRENN ID
- stark-corridor-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forstal Gate, Little Chart, TN27 0PU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 953 458
- Coordinates
- 51.17836, 0.79322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forstal Gate is a house incorporating a late mediaeval hall-house. The north-west portion dates from the late 18th century, with a very steep, almost pyramidal roof and a chimney stack on the west side. The remainder of the original hall-house was destroyed by fire at a later date. The south-east part of the building dates from the 16th to 17th centuries. Both sections are faced with red brick, the north-west portion dated to 1758 with the initials TW & EW. The roof is tiled. The house has two storeys and four casement windows. Attached to the building is a dairy and a 20th-century extension to the south-east. Interior has inglenook fireplace with tobacco curing hole.
Local climate
Forstal Gate 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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