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
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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