Ripple Court is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Hall-house.
Ripple Court
- WRENN ID
- weathered-grate-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Hall-house
- Address
- Ripple Court, Maidstone Road, Westwell
- OS grid reference
- TQ 976 458
- Coordinates
- 51.17798, 0.82699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ripple Court, originally called Ripley Court, is a historic house located on Maidstone Road in Westwell. It was the home of the Iden family and is associated with Jack Cade, the leader of Cade's Rebellion in 1450, who is said to have been killed here while resisting capture by Alexander Iden, the Sheriff of Kent, who lived in the house. However, there is some debate about the exact location of Cade's death, as a similar claim is made for Heathfield in Sussex, where a monument commemorates Cade's death.
The house is likely a 15th-century timber-framed hall-house, which has been refaced with red brick on the ground floor and is tile-hung above. It features a hipped tiled roof with smoke louvres, one gabled dormer, four casement windows, and a doorcase with a flat hood over it.
Local climate
Ripple Court 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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