The Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. A C18 House.

The Homestead

WRENN ID
waiting-gravel-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1979
Type
House
Address
The Homestead, 2, the Street, Wittersham
OS grid reference
TQ 900 272
Coordinates
51.01349, 0.70748
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Homestead is an 18th-century building located on the north-west side of The Street in Wittersham. It consists of two parallel ranges and stands two storeys high. The ground floor is constructed of red brick with grey headers, while the upper floor is tile hung. At the north end of the front, there is a half-hipped gable. The building features two sashes with missing glazing bars and two 19th-century bays on the ground floor. A late 19th-century shop front has been added at the north-east corner, and the entrance is now located in the side elevation.

Local climate

The Homestead 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 greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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