Monkshill Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Cottages. 5 related planning applications.
Monkshill Cottages
- WRENN ID
- kindled-frieze-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Monkshill Cottages, 1-4, Smarden Road, Biddenden, TN27 8QJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 862 408
- Coordinates
- 51.13654, 0.66085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Monkshill Cottages, numbered 1 to 4, comprise a group of buildings dating from the 16th to 18th centuries. Numbers 2 and 3 are timber-framed structures with plaster infilling, with the ground floor now clad in weatherboarding. Numbers 1 and 4 represent 18th-century additions constructed of red brick. The cottages are two storeys high and have a hipped tiled roof, with a total of five windows.
Local climate
Monkshill Cottages 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 — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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