Kings House and Beckett House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Public house. 1 related planning application.
Kings House and Beckett House
- WRENN ID
- swift-chancel-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Kings House and Beckett House, High Street, Charing, TN27 0LS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 953 495
- Coordinates
- 51.21133, 0.79514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kings House and Beckett House is an 18th century building that was refronted in the early 20th century. It stands two storeys tall, with the first floor finished in roughcast and the ground floor in brick. The building features a tiled roof adorned with four curved dormers. On the first floor, there are four triple sash windows. The ground floor includes two large three-light bay windows and a porch supported by six wooden columns. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Kings House and Beckett House 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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