Dane Street House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Dane Street House
- WRENN ID
- lost-terrace-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dane Street House, Chilham, CT4 8ER
- OS grid reference
- TR 057 529
- Coordinates
- 51.23859, 0.94681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dane Street House is an 18th-century house located on the east side of Dane Street in Chilham. The main part of the house has a red brick facade with a plain tile roof. It is two storeys and an attic, built on a rendered plinth, with stucco quoins on the right-hand side. It features a bracket eaves cornice and a hipped roof with two dormers and a central chimney stack. The windows are irregularly placed, with 2 glazing bar sashes and shutters with gauged heads on the first floor. The ground floor has one two-light "Gothic" traceried window, one 20th-century three-light window, and one glazing bar sash. A 20th-century glazed door is set within a flat-roofed porch supported by Ionic pilasters and columns.
To the left of the main house is a two-storey red brick wing with an attic, two hipped dormers, and irregularly placed glazing bar sashes. A 19th-century plank door is located within a gabled dormer at the head of a flight of steps. The right-hand front is faced with channelled stucco and has two storeys, a hipped roof with two dormers, and stacks located on the left and right. A conservatory has been added to the ground floor.
Local climate
Dane Street House 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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 2012
- 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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