The Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1976. House. 1 related planning application.
The Homestead
- WRENN ID
- dusk-mortar-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Homestead, Church Road, Kennington, TN24 9DG
- OS grid reference
- TR 020 448
- Coordinates
- 51.16701, 0.88831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Homestead is an 18th-century building located on the south-east side of Church Road in Kennington. It is two storeys high, with the ground floor constructed of painted brick and the first floor featuring tile hanging. The roof is hipped and tiled. The building has three altered casement windows and a 19th-century doorcase that includes a flat hood supported by brackets. On the right side, there is a lean-to structure.
Local climate
The Homestead sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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