By the Way is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. House. 1 related planning application.

By the Way

WRENN ID
silent-tower-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 August 1988
Type
House
Address
By the Way, Clap Hill, Aldington, TN25 7DG
OS grid reference
TR 058 369
Coordinates
51.09459, 0.93867
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

By The Way is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier and was clad and extended in the 18th century. It has a timber frame and is rendered, with tile hung return elevations. The roof is plain tiled and features a lobby entry plan. The building has two storeys and an additional storey in the attic, with a hipped roof that steps up at the centre to the left. There is a central stack cluster and a hipped dormer to the right. On the first floor, there is a sash window and a wooden casement to the left, while the ground floor has three wooden casements and a central panelled door with a gabled hood.

Local climate

By the Way sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% 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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