Wakeley Villas is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Cottage.
Wakeley Villas
- WRENN ID
- gentle-tracery-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wakeley Villas, 1 and 2, High Street, Charing
- OS grid reference
- TQ 953 495
- Coordinates
- 51.21146, 0.79566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wakeley Villas, located on the west side of Charing High Street, are a pair of 18th century cottages. They are two storeys high with a basement, built from red brick. The cottages feature a tiled roof with shaped Dutch gable ends and a modillion eaves cornice. Each cottage has two sashes with intact glazing bars and round-headed doorways that include semi-circular fanlights. Later additions include wooden round-headed porches.
Local climate
Wakeley Villas sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
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