The Cloth Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. A Medieval Hall. 9 related planning applications.
The Cloth Hall
- WRENN ID
- sheer-slate-bistre
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Hall
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Cloth Hall, Water Lane, Smarden, TN27 8QB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 878 423
- Coordinates
- 51.14963, 0.68504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cloth Hall is a 15th-century timber-framed building originally with close-studded walls and plaster infilling. The ground floor has been partially rebuilt in red brick, and the north-west end of the first floor oversails on projecting floor joists and brackets. The roof is tiled. The windows are casement windows with diamond-paned or small square leaded glass. A blocked 4-centred wooden doorway is present, with an iron-studded door and a peep-hole to the south-east. The building is two storeys high with five windows. A brick chimney breast has offsets on the south-east wall. The north-west front features a dragon post and a blocked double window. A loft door in the centre of the first floor's overhanging section is accessed by an outside ladder. Above this is another loft door with a projecting hip from which a hoist with a heavy iron hook is suspended. A 16th-century L-shaped addition is located at the north-west corner. The roof is a crown post roof.
Local climate
The Cloth Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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 — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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