Militia House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1996. House.
Militia House
- WRENN ID
- twisted-granite-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- Militia House, the Street, Smarden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 881 423
- Coordinates
- 51.14957, 0.68927
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Militia House is a house built around 1830-1840, forming part of a terrace, although the property on the right has been altered. It features a timber frame covered in weatherboarding and has a slate roof that is hipped to the left, with a central brick chimney stack. The eaves cornice is bracketed. The front has three irregularly spaced 12-pane sash windows, with the right window on the first floor having three tall panes. Most windows have moulded architraves. The doorcase includes a flat hood supported by brackets and a 20th-century panelled door. Inside, there is a large 19th-century fireplace with pilasters.
Local climate
Militia 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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