The White Horse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The White Horse
- WRENN ID
- half-zinc-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The White Horse, the Square, Chilham, CT4 8BY
- OS grid reference
- TR 068 536
- Coordinates
- 51.24428, 0.96207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Horse is a public house that dates from the 15th and 18th centuries. It features a timber frame and painted brick construction with a plain tile roof. The front facing the Square has two storeys, with a painted brick ground floor and exposed timber framing on the first floor. To the right, there is a hipped cross-wing with a garret. The building has an irregular arrangement of three windows, which are 19th-century glazing bar sashes. The central entrance is a 20th-century door, glazed and set within a moulded surround topped with a flat hood on brackets.
The south front, dating from the 18th century, also has two storeys and sits on a plinth with a modillion eaves cornice beneath a hipped roof. There is one window on each floor at the extreme right, featuring wooden casements with gauged heads, and a blocked window opening to the left on the ground floor. A 20th-century glazed door in a moulded surround with a flat hood on brackets is located at the extreme left.
Local climate
The White Horse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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