Chestnut House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1962. House.
Chestnut House
- WRENN ID
- secret-doorway-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chestnut House, the Green, High Halden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 901 372
- Coordinates
- 51.10301, 0.71398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut House is an 18th century building located in High Halden on The Green. It is two storeys tall with an attic, and is faced with weatherboarding. The roof is hipped and tiled, featuring a dentilled eaves cornice. The house has three windows and two dormers on the north-east side, and two windows with one dormer on the north-west side. The glazing bars are missing. The entrance has a doorcase with pilasters, a pediment, a low rectangular fanlight, and a six-panel door.
Local climate
Chestnut House 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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