Paris House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. A Medieval Cottage.
Paris House
- WRENN ID
- third-grate-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Paris House, Bethersden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 936 408
- Coordinates
- 51.13429, 0.76592
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Paris House is a 15th to 16th century timber-framed cottage located at Paris Corner in Bethersden. It features plaster infilling and curved braces on the first floor. The first floor of the west front extends outward, supported by the protruding ends of the floor joists. The ground floor at the east end of the north front has been rebuilt in red brick. The cottage has a hipped thatched roof with a tiled pentice at the back and includes casement windows. It stands two storeys tall and has two windows.
Local climate
Paris House 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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