Lichen is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. House. 1 related planning application.
Lichen
- WRENN ID
- deep-footing-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lichen, Biddenden, TN27 8DH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 850 362
- Coordinates
- 51.09543, 0.64084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lichen is an 18th-century building of two storeys. The ground floor is built of red brick, while the first floor is tile-hung. It has a tiled roof and three casement windows. A weather porch was added later. A gabled extension is present on the left side of the building.
Local climate
Lichen sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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