Chestnut House is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. House. 4 related planning applications.
Chestnut House
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-portal-starling
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chestnut House, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, TN30 7LL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 879 329
- Coordinates
- 51.06524, 0.68145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut House is an 18th-century building located on the west side of Smallhythe Road. It is a two-storey building with an attic, constructed of red brick with grey brick headers. The roof has three dormers. A brick string course and eaves cornice run along the top of the facade. Five sash windows with original glazing bars remain intact. The front door is set within a doorcase featuring Doric pilasters and is framed by a moulded wooden architrave with a fanlight above. It has an eight-panelled door. Chestnut House forms a group with Tile Cottage and the adjacent garden wall.
Local climate
Chestnut 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.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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