Church Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. House. 1 related planning application.

Church Cottages

WRENN ID
twisted-paling-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 August 1988
Type
House
Address
Church Cottages, Church Road, Smeeth
OS grid reference
TR 072 395
Coordinates
51.11788, 0.95995
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Cottages is a house, originally a pair of cottages, dating from the 16th century and clad in the 18th century. It features a timber frame covered with red brick on ragstone, with tile hanging on the first floor and a plain tiled roof. The building has three framed bays and a fire bay lobby entry plan, likely indicating it was originally a hall house. It stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a hipped roof that has gablets and stacks positioned to the centre left, projecting at the left and right ends. There are two three-light wooden casement windows and one central two-light wooden casement window on each floor. The doors, which are boarded, are located to the centre right and centre left, each with a flat hood supported by brackets. At the rear, there is a catslide outshot. Inside, the full frame is visible, and there are 18th-century strap-hinge doors.

Local climate

Church Cottages 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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