Luckhurst House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. House. 1 related planning application.

Luckhurst House

WRENN ID
fallow-passage-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1980
Type
House
Address
Luckhurst House, Smarden Road, Pluckley, TN27 0RW
OS grid reference
TQ 920 448
Coordinates
51.171, 0.74563
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Luckhurst House is an 18th-century building located on Smarden Road in Pluckley. It is two storeys tall with an attic and features a gable end. The house is constructed of red brick and has a half-hipped tiled roof. On the ground floor, there are three modern casement windows, each with brick architraves above them. The entrance is highlighted by a gabled porch.

Local climate

Luckhurst House 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
  • 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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