Little Belke is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. A C16 House.

Little Belke

WRENN ID
quiet-barrel-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 August 1984
Type
House
Address
Little Belke, School Hill, Chilham
OS grid reference
TR 068 535
Coordinates
51.24368, 0.96213
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Belke is a house dating from the 16th century. It is timber framed and has a plain tile roof. The building features two storeys and two bays, with 20th-century casement windows. The roof is part of a continuous range, and there is an end stack to the right. In front of the house, there is a 17th-century red brick wall that encloses a courtyard, which includes a 19th-century plank and stud door set within a four-centred, basket arch.

Local climate

Little Belke receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% 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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