Clap Hill House Harold Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. House.
Clap Hill House Harold Cottages
- WRENN ID
- spare-chamber-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Clap Hill House Harold Cottages, Aldington
- OS grid reference
- TR 058 369
- Coordinates
- 51.09494, 0.93859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clap Hill House, known as Harold Cottages, is a pair of houses built in the 18th century. Constructed from red and blue brick, the building features a plain tiled roof. It stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a roof that is hipped to the left and half-hipped to the right. There is a large chimney stack with a datestone located to the centre right and another stack at the rear left.
The original design included regular fenestration, with three wooden casements on the first floor and French doors to the left, along with a canted bay to the right on the ground floor. The central entrance has a six-panelled door, which is now partially glazed, set within a wide pedimented porch supported by doubled piers. To the left, there is an extension from the late 18th century that adds one window bay, featuring a glazing bar sash on each floor and a half-glazed door to the right with a flat hood on brackets. A 20th-century outshot with a casement window is located at the end left.
Local climate
Clap Hill House Harold Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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