Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1957. Library. 2 related planning applications.
Public Library
- WRENN ID
- twisted-courtyard-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1957
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Public Library, 6, Upper Bridge Street, Wye with Hinxhill, TN25 5AW
- OS grid reference
- TR 053 466
- Coordinates
- 51.18228, 0.93725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former vicarage, now a public library, dating back to the 18th century with an earlier core. It is constructed of painted brick with a plain tiled roof. The roof features a moulded wooden eaves cornice and three hipped dormers, with chimney stacks located centrally to the left and at the end to the right. The first floor has four glazing bar sash windows of varying sizes, while the right side of the ground floor has two tripartite sash windows. A canted bay window is situated on the left side. The main entrance is a door of six raised and fielded panels, with a semi-circular fanlight, positioned within a boldly projecting porch. The porch features wooden masonry-block return walls, a fluted frieze, and an open pediment supported on panelled pilasters with entablature blocks.
Local climate
Public Library sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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 — 1 transaction since 1999
- 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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