Ridgeway Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Ridgeway Cottages

WRENN ID
watchful-paling-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 August 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Ridgeway Cottages, 1, 2 and 3, the Ridgeway, Smeeth, TN25 6SG
OS grid reference
TR 071 400
Coordinates
51.12226, 0.95935
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ridgeway Cottages is a row of cottages dating from the 18th century. They are constructed of painted brick and ragstone with a plain tiled roof. The buildings stand two storeys high on a large plinth, featuring a hipped roof and chimney stacks at the left end, the center, and the right end. On the first floor, there are five wooden casement windows, while the ground floor has four. The cottages also have three boarded doors and a catslide outshot at the rear.

Local climate

Ridgeway Cottages receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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