Shalmsford Bridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. Toll house. 2 related planning applications.
Shalmsford Bridge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- outer-jade-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1984
- Type
- Toll house
- Address
- Shalmsford Bridge Cottage, Canterbury Road, Chilham, CT4 8AE
- OS grid reference
- TR 089 548
- Coordinates
- 51.25486, 0.99271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century toll house situated on the south-east side of the Chilham to Canterbury Road. The building is constructed of painted brick with a synthetic tiled roof. It is two storeys high, with a hipped roof and stacks positioned to the left and right. The front features two pointed arch plate glass windows and a central pointed board door.
Local climate
Shalmsford Bridge Cottage 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 lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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