8, West Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1972. House.
8, West Cross
- WRENN ID
- graven-merlon-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8, West Cross, Tenterden, TN30 6JL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 879 331
- Coordinates
- 51.06663, 0.68118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 West Cross is a 17th-century, two-storey timber-framed building. The ground floor is now faced with red brick, while the upper floor is tiled. Part of the rear of the building is plastered, revealing the visible timber-framing. The gable features carved bargeboards. The house has four windows and has undergone alterations, including the insertion of sash windows and the addition of a ground floor extension with a pentice roof at the southeast corner.
Local climate
8, West Cross 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 greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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