Parks and Cemeteries Office is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1976. Office. 6 related planning applications.
Parks and Cemeteries Office
- WRENN ID
- peeling-ember-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1976
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Parks and Cemeteries Office, Canterbury Road, TN24 8LB
- OS grid reference
- TR 010 432
- Coordinates
- 51.15344, 0.87408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parks and Cemeteries Office is a cemetery lodge built around 1870. It features an asymmetrical design with two storeys constructed from Kentish ragstone and a tiled roof. The left side has a gable with two oriel windows, while the central section includes an octagonal tower topped with a spirelet and a gablet on the right side. A decorative trefoil band and buttresses add to the building's character. The windows are fitted with leaded lights, and there is an arched doorcase. Gargoyles are positioned on either side of the tower, and two gablets are present on the left side elevation.
Local climate
Parks and Cemeteries Office 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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