Upper Ensign House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Upper Ensign House
- WRENN ID
- still-moat-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Upper Ensign House, Selling Road, Chilham, CT4 8BB
- OS grid reference
- TR 067 559
- Coordinates
- 51.26516, 0.96193
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Ensign House is an 18th-century house located on the east side of Selling Road in Old Wives Lees. The building features a timber frame that is clad in painted mathematical tiling, with the rear sections constructed of painted brick and topped with a plain tile roof.
The south front of the house is two storeys high and includes a moulded eaves cornice beneath a hipped roof, with chimney stacks positioned on both the left and right sides. The first floor has three glazing bar sash windows, while the ground floor features one glazing bar sash window with a hood blind on the left and another sash window with a hood blind on the right of a central 20th-century half-glazed door. A 19th-century gabled hood with bargeboards is supported by brackets above the entrance.
The left side elevation of the house is weatherboarded. The main entrance is located on the left side elevation, featuring a 20th-century half-glazed door flanked by rectangular sidelights and panels, all beneath a cornice that is supported by four slim Ionic attached columns.
Local climate
Upper Ensign House 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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