Knights Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. A C17 House. 2 related planning applications.
Knights Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-brick-lichen
- 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
- Knights Cottage, the Cross, Bilsington, TN25 7JX
- OS grid reference
- TR 039 344
- Coordinates
- 51.07354, 0.91039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knights Cottage is a 17th-century house located on the north-west side of The Cross in Bilsington. It is built of red brick with a plain tiled roof. The house is two storeys high with an attic, featuring a half-hipped roof, a hipped dormer window, and a shared stack to the right. The windows are wooden casements, with two-light and three-light openings on each floor; the ground floor windows have segmental heads. A boarded door is situated to the right, set within a trellised porch.
Local climate
Knights Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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