6-12, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Building. 1 related planning application.
6-12, High Street
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-spandrel-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 6-12, High Street, Biddenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 850 384
- Coordinates
- 51.11508, 0.64318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 6 to 12 High Street is a timber-framed building dating from the 16th century or earlier, which has been refaced with painted brick. It stands two storeys high with attics and features a hipped tiled roof at the west end, along with one hipped dormer. The building has a moulded wooden eaves cornice and four casement windows. Most of the shop windows are modern, except for No 10, which retains an 18th-century shop window with its glazing bars intact, although it is no longer used as a shop. The structure extends back into two long parallel wings where the original timber-framing with close-studding and plaster infilling is visible, and the gable ends overhang. In front of the building, there is contemporary paving made of Bethersden marble that forms a footpath extending southeast for about 12 yards.
Local climate
6-12, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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