Swinford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Swinford Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hollow-courtyard-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Swinford Cottage, the Street, Westwell, TN25 4JX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 990 474
- Coordinates
- 51.19194, 0.84674
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swinford Cottage is a timber-framed building from the 17th century or earlier, which was refronted in the 18th century and has 19th-century additions. The main part of the cottage is two storeys high and constructed of red brick, featuring a hipped tiled roof and four casement windows, some of which have small square leaded panes. At the east end, there is a 19th-century addition that is also two storeys high, made of red brick, and has one window bay with a half-hipped gable.
Local climate
Swinford Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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