Apple Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1976. Cottage.
Apple Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-step-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Apple Cottage, Ball Lane, Kennington
- OS grid reference
- TR 026 453
- Coordinates
- 51.17181, 0.89786
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Apple Cottage is an 18th-century building that stands two storeys high with attics. It features a grey header brick construction, accented by red brick window dressings, quoins, and panels between the ground and first-floor windows. The building has a modillion eaves cornice and a hipped tiled roof, which includes two hipped dormers and three casement windows. It has group value with the Old School Bungalow. This building was previously listed as The Old School House and was incorrectly named Old School Cottage in an earlier listing.
Local climate
Apple Cottage 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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