Swan Lees Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Swan Lees Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-corner-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Swan Lees Cottage, Challock, TN25 4DE
- OS grid reference
- TR 007 504
- Coordinates
- 51.21766, 0.87332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swan Lees Cottage is an 18th-century house located on the south side of The Lees, Challock. The house is timber-framed with a red brick ground floor, tile hung first floor, and a plain tile roof. It is a rectangular block of two storeys, featuring a hipped roof and a separately hipped roof over a cross-wing to the left. There are three chimney stacks at the rear. The windows are 19th-century wooden casements, with segment-headed openings on the ground floor. A central 20th-century plank door is set within a gabled porch with bargeboards.
Local climate
Swan Lees 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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