Garden Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1974. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Garden Cottages
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-pillar-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Garden Cottages, 1-4, Lower Lees, Chilham, CT4 8AX
- OS grid reference
- TR 076 549
- Coordinates
- 51.25559, 0.9749
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are a row of four cottages, dating from around 1700. They were likely originally a public house. The cottages are timber-framed and have been covered with painted brick, with a plain tile roof. The right-hand bay has been plastered and features a plat band. There are gables with coping, end stacks to the left and right, and a central ridge stack. The windows are regularly placed and comprise 18th-century and 20th-century sash windows, with gauged heads to the ground floor. There are four 20th-century half-glazed doors, each with a sloping roofed porch. A 20th-century garage extension of no particular architectural interest is attached to the left.
Local climate
Garden Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 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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