Oak Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1976. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Oak Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stark-turret-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oak Farm Cottage, 63, Lower Vicarage Road, Kennington, TN24 9BH
- OS grid reference
- TR 015 449
- Coordinates
- 51.16824, 0.88155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Farm Cottage is a timber-framed building dating from the 15th to 16th century, possibly originally featuring an open hall. It stands two storeys high and is characterized by its curved braces. The hipped tiled roof includes a smoke louvre and a large 17th-century chimney stack. The building has a jettied overhang that is supported by substantial oak brackets. On the ground floor, there are three casement windows with mullions and transoms. Inside, the cottage features an inglenook fireplace and a dragon beam.
Local climate
Oak Farm Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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