Wistaria Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Wistaria Cottage
- WRENN ID
- last-courtyard-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wistaria Cottage, Water Lane, Smarden, TN27 8QB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 880 423
- Coordinates
- 51.14957, 0.68678
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wisteria Cottage is a 17th-century or earlier cottage, which has been restored. It is timber-framed with cemented infilling, and the first floor is weatherboarded. The roof is tiled. The cottage has two casement windows.
Local climate
Wistaria Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- 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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