Smallhythe Place is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. Museum/house. 2 related planning applications.
Smallhythe Place
- WRENN ID
- strange-rood-onyx
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Museum/house
- Address
- Smallhythe Place, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, TN30 7NG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 893 299
- Coordinates
- 51.03812, 0.69935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smallhythe Place is a 15th-century timber-framed house located on Smallhythe Road. It features close-studding and has an overhanging first floor supported by protruding ends of the floor joists, with the south end propped up on three posts. The building has two storeys and a tiled roof, which includes a renewed brick chimneystack. There are five modern casement windows and one sash window. The roof slopes down to one storey at the rear. Attached to the back is an 18th-century stable building that has two storeys, with the ground floor being part brick and part weatherboarded, topped with a half-hipped tiled roof. The house served as the residence of actress Ellen Terry for many years until her death and is now furnished as it was during her time. Smallhythe Place and the barn form a group.
Local climate
Smallhythe Place 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 greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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