The Woolpack Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. Public house. 8 related planning applications.
The Woolpack Inn
- WRENN ID
- little-span-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1988
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Woolpack Inn, Church Road, Warehorne, TN26 2LL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 989 325
- Coordinates
- 51.05792, 0.83748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Woolpack Inn is a public house dating from the late 17th century, with an extension added in the early 19th century. It features painted brickwork with tile hanging on the left side and an extension made of weatherboarding. The building has a plain tiled roof and follows a lobby entry plan. It stands two storeys tall with an attic on a plinth, topped with a dogtooth cornice and a hipped roof that includes two raking dormers and a central left chimney stack.
On the first floor, there are wooden casement windows and glazing bar sash windows, while the ground floor has segmentally headed wooden casement windows and a tripartite glazing bar sash. The right-hand weatherboarded section is windowless but has two prominent canted two-storey bays on the right side. There is a catslide outshot on the left side. A boarded door is located in the centre left, set within a projecting two-storey flat-roofed porch that has a cornice running across the top, along with a painted sign board and an iron lamp above it.
The cellars of the inn are said to have a well-documented tunnel that runs under the road to the nearby church of St. Matthew, which is known for its historical association with smuggling activities.
Local climate
The Woolpack Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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