1 and 3, Ashford Road is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1951. House. 6 related planning applications.
1 and 3, Ashford Road
- WRENN ID
- heavy-passage-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1 and 3, Ashford Road, ME14 5BJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 765 557
- Coordinates
- 51.27341, 0.52938
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 1 and 3 Ashford Road is a pair of houses built as one composition around 1820. They are three storeys tall with a basement and have a stuccoed exterior, featuring a rusticated ground floor. The building has a total of seven windows, with the three central window bays projecting slightly. There is a cornice and parapet above the second floor, with the centre of the parapet balustraded and the ends panelled. A stringcourse runs above the ground floor. The windows are surrounded by moulded architraves, retaining their glazing bars, and those on the first floor have cornices above, with the three central windows supported on consoles. The houses feature a joint portico supported by six fluted columns with leaf capitals and an entablature, with three steps leading up to the portico. The doorways have rectangular fanlights and doors with eight fielded panels. The front garden is enclosed by a low stuccoed balustraded wall.
Local climate
1 and 3, Ashford Road 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 lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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