Smeeth Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.

Smeeth Hill House

WRENN ID
blind-hinge-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 August 1988
Type
House
Address
Smeeth Hill House, Hythe Road, TN25 6ST
OS grid reference
TR 073 394
Coordinates
51.11711, 0.96156
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Smeeth Hill House is a house dating from the 16th century and early 20th century. It is constructed of red brick and yellow stocks on ragstone, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building consists of two parallel ranges. The entrance front, which is from the early 20th century, is two storeys high with a hipped roof and features triple rendered stacks on both the left and right sides. The front has an irregular arrangement of windows, including two glazing bar sashes, a round-headed stair light, and an oriel window on the first floor. To the left, there is a large mullioned and transomed window with a plank and stud door, set within a four-centred arched doorway in a gabled porch.

To the right, there is a projecting wing built in the late 19th century in a vernacular revival style, also two storeys high, made of brick with a rendered upper floor and a hipped tiled roof. This wing features large mullioned and transomed windows on both floors. The left return of the main elevation has a parapet and a return hipped roof, with two hipped dormers. There are two paired sashes on the first floor and French windows on the ground floor.

The rear elevation is made of red brick and has a hipped roof with gablets, featuring five glazing bar sashes on the first floor and two bays on the ground floor. The original 16th-century building was oriented towards this rear elevation, and the triple stacks are said to be moulded below the line of the early 20th-century entrance front. Smeeth Hill House was the home of the Bedingfield family, who intermarried with the Scotts of Scotts's Hall, and both families' coats of arms can be found in the panelling and other features in Smeeth Church.

Local climate

Smeeth Hill House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
  • 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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