Bell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. House. 1 related planning application.
Bell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-cobble-ivy
- 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
- Bell Cottage, Smarden Bell Road, TN27 8PW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 869 429
- Coordinates
- 51.15513, 0.67208
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell Cottage is an 18th-century building located on Bell Road in Smarden. It is two storeys high and features a façade of weatherboarding. The roof is hipped and tiled, with a pentice at the back. The cottage has three casement windows and doorcases that are topped with flat hoods supported by brackets, leading to four-panel doors.
Local climate
Bell 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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