The Old Sweet Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. House.
The Old Sweet Shop
- WRENN ID
- white-cinder-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Sweet Shop, Woodchurch Road, Appledore
- OS grid reference
- TQ 951 311
- Coordinates
- 51.04659, 0.78246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Sweet Shop is a timber-framed building from the 17th century or earlier that has been refaced in brick. It stands two storeys tall with a red brick exterior and features a hipped tiled roof. The building has three triple casement windows and a gabled weather porch.
Local climate
The Old Sweet Shop sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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