Cumberland House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. Hall house. 2 related planning applications.
Cumberland House
- WRENN ID
- final-oriel-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- Cumberland House, the Street, Chilham, CT4 8BX
- OS grid reference
- TR 069 535
- Coordinates
- 51.24399, 0.96332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cumberland House is a hall house dating to the late 15th century. It has a timber frame construction with a red brick plinth and a plain tile roof. The house is two storeys high, with a continuous jetty to the first floor. An eaves cornice runs along the hipped roof, which features gablets and three projecting stacks – two at the ends and one central. The central bays have jettied floor joists, indicating the insertion of a floor at a higher level than the side bays. It has an irregular arrangement of windows: five 20th-century wooden casement windows to the first floor, three 20th-century segmental bay windows to the ground floor, and a 20th-century plank door in the centre to the right.
Local climate
Cumberland House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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