The Hamel is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. House.

The Hamel

WRENN ID
cold-baluster-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1979
Type
House
Address
The Hamel, 7, Swan Street, Wittersham
OS grid reference
TQ 896 274
Coordinates
51.01552, 0.70263
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Hamel is an 18th-century building located on Swan Street in Wittersham. It has two storeys and is faced with weatherboarding, topped by a tiled roof. The building features two casement windows, each with small square leaded panes, and has external brick chimney stacks.

Local climate

The Hamel 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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