Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Cottage.
Lilac Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-portal-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lilac Cottage, 2, Front Road, Woodchurch
- OS grid reference
- TQ 942 349
- Coordinates
- 51.08073, 0.77215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lilac Cottage is a late 17th-century building consisting of two parallel ranges. It is two storeys high and is faced with weatherboarding. The roof is half-hipped and covered with tiles. The cottage features two horizontally sliding sash windows, along with a small window on the ground floor that was once a shop window, complete with glazing bars. There are also two external brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Lilac Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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