47, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Wealden house.
47, High Street
- WRENN ID
- half-parapet-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Wealden house
- Address
- 47, High Street, Charing
- OS grid reference
- TQ 952 494
- Coordinates
- 51.2109, 0.79463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
47 High Street is a 15th to 16th century Wealden house featuring a cross-wing and a recessed center. It stands two stories high with attics. The ground floor has been refaced in brick, which is now painted, while the first floor of the east front is adorned with fishscale tiles, and the north front is plastered, both sections oversailing. The eaves of the west half of the north front overhang on brackets. The roof is tiled and has a gable end facing east. The house includes casement windows, with one window facing east and two windows along with two hipped dormers facing north. The east front also features a modern shop front.
Local climate
47, High Street 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 lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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