Whiston is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Former vicarage.
Whiston
- WRENN ID
- riven-stair-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Former vicarage
- Address
- Whiston, Ashford Road, Bethersden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 924 399
- Coordinates
- 51.12657, 0.74857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whiston is a former vicarage built in 1676 by Jonathan Whiston. The building is two storeys high with attics, constructed from red brick with grey headers. It features a tiled roof with three gabled dormers and a stringcourse. There are five sash windows, although the glazing bars are missing. A 19th-century gabled porch is present, along with a 19th-century addition at the rear.
Local climate
Whiston 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2002
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