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Chestnut House, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, TN30 7LL

PA/2025/0750Listed building consent (Alt/Ext)Approved
Listed building consent

Approved on 4 February 2026

Council decision: Grant ConsentDelegated (officer decision)2 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Listed Building Consent for alterations to repair and refurbish the interior of the building; Ground floor - install new floor tiling, repair and strengthen opening between kitchen and utility room, remove 1980s spiral staircase, relocate ground floor wc cloakroom, remove modern stud partition wall in drawing room, reinstate original timber framed wall to original position between reception hall and dining room, reclaimed Oak floor boarding laid over existing flooring to ground floor rooms. First Floor - provide new first floor shower room, relocate bathroom and form dressing room. Second floor – Form new access into attic for storage off bed 6, and create new shower room off Bed 5.

Received
16 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rolvenden & Tenterden West
  1. Received16 Apr
  2. Validated16 Apr
  3. Consult.4 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Feb

Decided in 294 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Chestnut House, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, TN30 7LL. Ashford has handled 458 applications of this type. This one was decided in 294 days, 34 weeks longer than Ashford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across Rolvenden & Tenterden West. We hold 380 applications in total for the TN30 postcode area.

88% of heritage applications at Ashford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TN30 7LL
Application type
Listed building consent (Alt/Ext)
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Tenterden

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 April 2025
Consultation expiry
4 February 2026
Consultation end
4 February 2026
Application expires
6 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
296 days

Publicity

Site notice start
25 April 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13870933
Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Tenterden
  • Listed building: Grade II*: Chestnut HouseOn this site · +1 more
  • Tree Preservation OrderPart of the site · +1 more
  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Ashford

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