West House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
West House
- WRENN ID
- brooding-cinder-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- West House, 28, High Street, Biddenden, TN27 8AH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 850 384
- Coordinates
- 51.11521, 0.64238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West House is a 16th century or earlier timber-framed building located on the north side of Biddenden High Street. The ground floor shows traces of timber framing with plaster infilling, but it has been largely refaced in painted brick. The upper floor is tile hung and features a wide overhang supported by a bressummer and brackets, with a bellcast above. The building has two storeys and a tiled roof, along with a moulded wooden eaves cornice. There are three sash windows with intact vertical glazing bars and two small bays on the ground floor. The entrance features a four-centred wooden doorway with carved spandrels and a low rectangular fanlight above. In front of the building, there is contemporary paving made of Bethersden marble that forms a footpath extending southeast for about 12 yards.
Local climate
West 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 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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