Harrison House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Harrison House
- WRENN ID
- standing-rotunda-nightshade
- 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
- Harrison House, Ash Hill, Ruckinge, TN26 2PE
- OS grid reference
- TR 021 338
- Coordinates
- 51.0683, 0.88443
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harrison House is a house dating from the mid-18th century, although it may incorporate an earlier core. The front is built of red and blue chequered brick on a ragstone base, with a ragstone return elevation. The roof is tiled, hipped, and has a central stack and two hipped dormers. The house has two storeys and an attic, with a plinth and a brick eaves cornice of three courses, dentilled, corbelled, and dogtoothed, leading to a hipped roof. The windows on the first floor consist of two three-light wooden casements and one central two-light casement. The ground floor has three segmentally headed wooden casements, with the one on the left incorporated into a late 20th-century outshot. The central door has six raised and fielded panels, original fittings and handles, and a Grotesque mask knocker, all within a moulded architrave with a flat, moulded hood. A catslide outshot projects to the rear, along with a late 20th-century hipped rear extension.
The interior retains large square inglenooks, stop-chamfered beams and joists (with run-out stops), with some later insertions. Other beams may indicate the presence of an earlier structure.
Local climate
Harrison House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2001
- 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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