Dragon House Larasset is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. House.
Dragon House Larasset
- WRENN ID
- mired-garret-honey
- 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
- Dragon House Larasset, Tenterden Road, High Halden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 898 372
- Coordinates
- 51.10331, 0.7107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dragon House, also known as Larasset, is a Grade II listed building located on Tenterden Road in High Halden. The structure consists of two parallel ranges, with the front range dating from the 19th century. The left portion, Larasset, features a pebbledashed ground floor and tile hanging on the first floor, with two casement windows and two three-light bay windows on the ground floor. The right portion, Dragon House, is weatherboarded on the ground floor and also has tile hanging on the first floor, topped with a slate roof. The rear range is believed to date from the 17th century or earlier, standing two storeys tall. Its ground floor is pebbledashed, while the first floor is hung with curved tiles, and it has a hipped tiled roof with a 17th century brick chimneystack.
Local climate
Dragon House Larasset 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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