Timber Framed Building in the South West Corner of the Churchyard of Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Timber-framed building.
Timber Framed Building in the South West Corner of the Churchyard of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- silver-lancet-gold
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Timber-framed building
- Address
- Timber Framed Building in the South West Corner of the Churchyard of Church of St Mary, the Street, Great Chart with Singleton
- OS grid reference
- TQ 979 418
- Coordinates
- 51.14199, 0.82862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a timber-framed building located in the south-west corner of the churchyard of the Church of St Mary. It dates from the 16th century or earlier and is a single storey structure with two windows, featuring plaster infilling. The building has widely overhanging eaves supported by brackets with sprockets above, and it is topped with a hipped tiled roof. There are two small red brick additions to the west. The building appears too small to have served as the pre-Reformation priest-house and is too old to have been intended for watching over the churchyard. Its original purpose remains uncertain; Sir Charles Igglesden, in his book "Saunters through Kent with a Pen and Pencil," suggests it may have been a pest-house, although its location makes this unlikely.
Local climate
Timber Framed Building in the South West Corner of the Churchyard of Church of St Mary sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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