Dowle Street Cottages is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. A Medieval Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Dowle Street Cottages
- WRENN ID
- blind-minaret-mint
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Dowle Street Cottages, Dowle Street Road, Pluckley, TN27 0RY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 935 437
- Coordinates
- 51.16031, 0.76698
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dowle Street Cottages, originally the Dowle Street Farmhouse, is a 15th-century timber-framed building featuring plaster infilling and curved braces on the first floor. It has a steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof and consists of one bay on both the ground and first floors, topped with a gable. The first-floor window has two tiers of six lights, made with wooden mullions and transoms, along with three casement windows. The doorcase is adorned with a flat hood supported by brackets. The first floor of the north-east front extends over the ends of the floor joists, while the south-west front originally had a similar overhang but has been underbuilt in brick, which is now painted, with a pentice addition. This building is a notable example of a late medieval hall-house.
Local climate
Dowle Street 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
- 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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