Crea House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
Crea House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-glass-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Crea House, High Street, Chilham, CT4 8BX
- OS grid reference
- TR 068 535
- Coordinates
- 51.24386, 0.96286
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crea House, formerly known as Bennetts The Butchers and the house adjoining, is a house and shop dating from the 17th century, with a date of 1681 marked in blue headers. The building features a timber frame clad in red brick and tile hanging, topped with a plain tile roof. It stands two storeys high on a plinth and has a plat band. The roof is gabled to the left with a projecting end stack and hipped to the right with a ridge stack.
The left section of the building is constructed of red brick and has two 19th-century sash windows on the first floor, and two glazing bar sashes on the ground floor; one is located to the left in a large blocked segment-headed opening, while the other is in a round-arched opening to the right. There is a door to the centre left with six fielded panels, topped by a flat hood supported on brackets.
To the right is the butcher's shop, which is an 18th-century extension. This section is tile hung on the first floor and features one glazing bar sash window. The ground floor has a 19th-century shop front with a pentice supported by three cast iron pillars and wrought iron scrolled brackets. A large beam with game hooks is located to the left. The rear and side elevations are tile hung on the first floor.
Local climate
Crea House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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