The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. A C18 Rectory.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- noble-buttress-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Rectory, Bethersden Road, Hothfield
- OS grid reference
- TQ 968 447
- Coordinates
- 51.16827, 0.81422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is an 18th-century L-shaped house located on Bethersden Road in Hothfield. It is two storeys tall and constructed of red brick, topped with a tiled roof featuring a wooden eaves cornice. The building has four sash windows, all with intact glazing bars. The entrance is framed by a doorcase that includes thin pilasters, a flat hood above, and a rectangular fanlight. The door itself has six moulded panels and is accessed by five steps.
Local climate
The Rectory 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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