Crofton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1973. A C15 Farmhouse.
Crofton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- worn-belfry-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Orpington MP: Gareth Bacon (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1973
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Crofton Farmhouse, 161, Crofton Avenue
- OS grid reference
- TQ 451 667
- Coordinates
- 51.3816, 0.08378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crofton Farmhouse is a 15th-century timber-framed hall house located on Crofton Lane in Orpington. It features a king-post roof and screens, with the passage bit having been refaced in the 18th century. The building is L-shaped and has two storeys made of red brick. It has a hipped pantiled roof that includes two dormers, three mullioned casements, and a simple doorcase on the left side, which is topped with a weather-hood supported by brackets. The left side elevation is rendered.
Local climate
Crofton Farmhouse 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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