2, West Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. House.
2, West Cross
- WRENN ID
- inner-bailey-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- 2, West Cross, Tenterden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 880 331
- Coordinates
- 51.06678, 0.68189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 2 West Cross is an 18th-century building that stands two storeys high with attics and is covered in red mathematical tiles. It features a hipped roof and has five sash windows with intact glazing bars. The entrance is highlighted by a doorcase that includes Tuscan half-columns, a pediment, a semi-circular fanlight, and a six-panel moulded door. No 2 West Cross, along with Nos 4 and 6 West Cross, forms a group with Nos 138 to 142 (even) High Street.
Local climate
2, West Cross 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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