Chessenden is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. House. 6 related planning applications.
Chessenden
- WRENN ID
- bitter-arch-russet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chessenden, the Street, Smarden, TN27 8NB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 882 424
- Coordinates
- 51.14993, 0.69053
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 15th-century timber-framed building with plaster infilling, located on the south side of The Street in Chessenden. The building has overhanging first floors in the end window bays, supported by bressumers and brackets with curved braces. The central portion features close-studded timbering, with an overhanging eaves supported by brackets. This section includes a single bay with a large window, spanning both ground and first floors, and featuring six lights, a wooden transom, and an oversailing gable containing an attic window. Windows throughout are of six lights, with diamond-shaped leaded panes. The building is topped by a hipped tiled roof. It is two storeys in height and has four windows.
Local climate
Chessenden 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 — 1 transaction since 2013
- 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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