Ludwell House is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. A C18 House.
Ludwell House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-basalt-myrtle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ludwell House, High Street, Charing
- OS grid reference
- TQ 952 494
- Coordinates
- 51.21104, 0.79468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ludwell House is a Grade II* listed building located on the west side of Charing High Street. It was built in the early 18th century by the Poole family and is named after a former owner, Dr. Ludwell. The house features two storeys, attics, and cellars, constructed of red brick with alternating grey headers. It has a hipped tiled roof that includes three dormers and a bracket eaves cornice. A painted stringcourse runs along the building. The façade has five sash windows with intact glazing bars. At the front, there is a porch supported by Tuscan columns, leading up five steps to a round-headed doorcase. This doorcase is adorned with a semi-circular fanlight and an eight-panelled fielded door. The property also retains its original iron spear railings surrounding the forecourt.
Local climate
Ludwell 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings