Finches is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. House.
Finches
- WRENN ID
- vacant-chalk-evening
- 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
- Finches, Swan Street, Wittersham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 891 273
- Coordinates
- 51.01447, 0.69591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Finches is a building dating from the 17th century or earlier, located on Swan Street in Wittersham. It is two storeys high and features a tile-hung exterior with a hipped tiled roof. The front of the building has three casement windows. There is a later hipped weather porch added to the entrance, and a modern L-shaped addition has been constructed at the rear.
Local climate
Finches 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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