Lilac House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1962. House. 3 related planning applications.

Lilac House

WRENN ID
solitary-oriel-primrose
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
Lilac House, 27, North Street, Biddenden, TN27 8AG
OS grid reference
TQ 851 386
Coordinates
51.11745, 0.64369
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Lilac House, located at No 27 North Street in Biddenden, is a 17th-century building. It has two storeys and attics, with its exterior faced in fishscale tiles. The roof is half-hipped and tiled, featuring two hipped dormers. The house has three casement windows, each with small square leaded panes. The doorcase includes a flat hood, which is now covered by a modern tiled canopy, and the door consists of three fielded panels. There is a portion at the north end of the building that has a ground floor only and is topped with a pentice roof.

Local climate

Lilac House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • 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
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