18-26, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. House. 13 related planning applications.
18-26, High Street
- WRENN ID
- scattered-tallow-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 18-26, High Street, Biddenden, TN27 8AH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 850 384
- Coordinates
- 51.11519, 0.64262
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a range of buildings dating from the 17th or earlier, with 18th-century facades, located on the north side of High Street in Biddenden. The buildings form a two-storey structure with attics, constructed of red brick with the ground floor painted. The tiled roof is punctuated by four gabled dormers, and features a wooden eaves cornice with modillion detailing. There are nine sash windows with intact glazing bars on the first floor. The ground floor windows of numbers 18, 20, and 26 are small bays, while number 24 has a modern shop window. A footpath in front of the buildings is paved with Bethersden marble, extending approximately 12 yards to the south-east.
Local climate
18-26, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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 — 8 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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