Munk's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Munk's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-sill-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Munk's Cottage, Bell Road, Smarden, TN27 8PN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 866 432
- Coordinates
- 51.15804, 0.668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Munk's Cottage is likely part of a late medieval hall-house. It is a timber-framed building that has been refaced in brick, which is now painted. The cottage has two storeys and features a hipped tiled roof with a smoke louvre on one side. There are two casement windows and a 17th-century brick chimney stack.
Local climate
Munk's Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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