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
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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