Padwell Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Cottage.

Padwell Cottages

WRENN ID
dark-gable-cream
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
Padwell Cottages, 1 and 2, the Street, Great Chart with Singleton
OS grid reference
TQ 981 418
Coordinates
51.14201, 0.83105
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Padwell Cottages, located on the south-east side of The Street in Great Chart, date from the 18th century or earlier. The building is two storeys high, with a ground floor made of red brick and tile-hung walls above. It features a half-hipped tiled roof with a pentice on both the north and south sides. There are four casement windows. The cottages are situated down an alley next to the former Methodist chapel, which is now known as The Studio.

Local climate

Padwell Cottages 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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