The Stocks is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. A C16 or earlier House.
The Stocks
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Stocks, Stocks Road, Wittersham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 912 273
- Coordinates
- 51.0134, 0.7253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stocks is a house located on Stocks Road in Wittersham. It is named after the stocks that once stood nearby. Originally, it served as the mill-house for the adjacent Stocks Windmill, later becoming the Parish Poorhouse and then two cottages. It has now been converted back into a single residence. The building is L-shaped and dates from the 16th century or earlier, featuring a timber frame with plaster infilling. The first floor of the north wing overhangs, supported by protruding floor joists and brackets, and has two small tile-hung gables above. The roof is steeply pitched and tiled, hipped at one end and half-hipped at the other. The house has four casement windows with small square leaded panes, and the side elevation is also tile-hung. There is a modern addition to the west.
Local climate
The Stocks 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 greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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