Vesperhawk House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. House.
Vesperhawk House
- WRENN ID
- long-alcove-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Vesperhawk House, the Street, Smarden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 883 419
- Coordinates
- 51.14613, 0.6919
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vesperhawk House, formerly known as Vestpherhawk Farmhouse, dates from around 1490 and is a T-shaped timber-framed building. The north front and the ground floor of the west front feature close-studded construction with plaster infilling. The south front has been refaced; the ground floor is finished with stucco and weatherboarding, while the upper part is tiled. The first floor of the north and east fronts extends outward on the ends of the floor joists and brackets, but the ground floor of the south front has been underbuilt. The building has a hipped tiled roof with sprocket eaves cornice and includes five casement windows. Notably, the west front has distinctive windows with 4-centred heads and traces of grooves for shutters, along with a 4-centred wooden doorway featuring spandrels that contain a double petalled rose, symbolizing the York and Lancaster connection, and the dragon of Cadwallader, which is associated with the family of Henry VII's mother.
Local climate
Vesperhawk House 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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