Wykhurst is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. House.
Wykhurst
- WRENN ID
- tattered-spindle-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wykhurst, Mill Lane, Aldington
- OS grid reference
- TR 057 361
- Coordinates
- 51.08766, 0.93648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wykhurst is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier. It has a timber frame that is clad with red brick and tile hanging, topped by a plain tiled roof. The building features a lobby entry plan and consists of one storey with an attic. The ground floor is tile hung on its upper courses and has a hipped roof with two hipped dormers. There are stacks located at the rear right and clustered towards the centre right. The front includes two leaded casement windows and a boarded door situated to the centre right, which is accessed through a hipped porch. At the rear right, there is a later hipped wing.
Local climate
Wykhurst sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 2 transactions since 2013
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