The Corner Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Shop. 2 related planning applications.
The Corner Stores
- WRENN ID
- sharp-doorway-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- The Corner Stores, 6, Poplar Road, Wittersham, TN30 7PG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 900 273
- Coordinates
- 51.01413, 0.708
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Corner Stores is a 18th century building with an earlier core, located on the north-east side of Poplar Road in Wittersham. It has two storeys, with the ground floor featuring painted brick and the upper floor weatherboarded. The roof is tiled and includes a 17th century brick chimney stack. At the east end of the front, there is a half hipped, tile-hung gable. The building has four windows: casement windows and one lunette on the first floor, while the ground floor has sash windows, although the glazing bars are missing. There is a modern shop front that has been built out at the east end.
Local climate
The Corner Stores 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 greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 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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