Palace Cottages and the Remains of the Gatehouse Adjoining is a Grade I listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. A C14 Cottage, gatehouse.
Palace Cottages and the Remains of the Gatehouse Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- sunken-pediment-russet
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Cottage, gatehouse
- Period
- C14
- Address
- Palace Cottages and the Remains of the Gatehouse Adjoining, TN27 0LP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 953 494
- Coordinates
- 51.21048, 0.79605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Palace Cottages (Nos 1 and 2) and the remains of the adjoining gatehouse date back to the 14th century. This site was once the south side of the courtyard of the former manor house of the Archbishops of Canterbury, likely built by John Stratford, who served as Archbishop from 1333 to 1348 and is said to have favored Charing as his residence. The buildings are faced with flints.
The south-east section features the roofless remains of the gatehouse, which includes stone carriage and pedestrian archways with obtusely pointed heads. The gable end facing east has flint and brick buttresses at its corners. To the north-east of the gatehouse stands a two-storey cottage with three windows and a half-hipped tiled roof. The ground floor windows of this cottage are set within stone surrounds that resemble medieval windows. Next is another ruined section with a pointed stone archway flanked by buttresses, followed by another inhabited cottage that has two storeys and an attic, a steeply-pitched tiled roof with one modern hipped dormer, and two casement windows.
Local climate
Palace Cottages and the Remains of the Gatehouse Adjoining 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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