Westdown Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Westdown Cottage
- WRENN ID
- small-crypt-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Westdown Cottage, Nat's Lane, Brook, TN25 5PH
- OS grid reference
- TR 061 441
- Coordinates
- 51.15963, 0.94751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westdown Cottage is a house that dates from the 15th century, with elements from the 17th century and late 20th century. It features a timber frame that is clad and extended with rendered brick and tile hanging, topped by a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys beneath a hipped roof, with a cross-hipped section and a higher hip on the right range. There is a free-standing and offset stack at the right end. The cottage has two wooden casements on each floor, along with a glazed door set in a glazed gabled porch. An outshot is present on the left side, and there are wooden casements on the right return. Inside, the right return wing consists of a two-bay framed crosswing that is part of a lost main range, featuring a dragon beam and a smoke-blackened sans-purlin roof, with a 17th-century stack attached to an inglenook.
Local climate
Westdown 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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