The Thatched House is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. A Medieval Hall-house. 1 related planning application.
The Thatched House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-gable-birch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Hall-house
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Thatched House, Cage Lane, Smarden, TN27 8QE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 878 420
- Coordinates
- 51.14727, 0.68398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched House is a 15th-century, two-bay hall house located on Cage Lane, Smarden. It is a timber-framed building with plaster infilling, featuring curved bracing on the first floor. The house has two storeys and a hipped thatched roof. It retains four casement windows with diamond-shaped or small square leaded panes. This is a well-restored example of a late medieval hall-house.
Local climate
The Thatched House 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings