Little London Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1973. House. 8 related planning applications.
Little London Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- floating-finial-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Gillingham and Rainham MP: Naushabah Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Little London Farmhouse, Lower Twydall Lane
- OS grid reference
- TQ 802 678
- Coordinates
- 51.38104, 0.58909
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse dating from the late 15th to early 16th century, with alterations in the 17th and 19th centuries, and a 19th-century rear range. The house is timber-framed and stands on a flint plinth. Parts of the exterior are brick, render, and weatherboard, while the left-hand gable is brick and the right-hand gable is weatherboard. It has a tiled roof. The plan is based on a 3-room parallel arrangement, with a lean-to extension to the right and a 19th-century service range to the rear.
The two-storey front has a three-window arrangement. A flint plinth is visible on the ground floor, above which is rendered cladding. The first floor has close-studded timber framing with tension braces and two cills to small, blocked, late 16th-century clerestory windows set under the eaves. The left-hand gable is of English bond brick, while the right-hand gable is weatherboard. A 20th-century timber canopy with a hipped roof is positioned to the right of the left-hand window, sheltering a boarded front door. The ground floor has an 8/8-pane sash window in an exposed frame to the left, and 20th-century casement windows in the centre and to the right. First-floor windows include 19th-century casements and a central 3/6-pane sash window. The right-hand lean-to has a raking roof and a 19th-century timber-framed half gable. A lower rear wing contains a lateral stack and a gabled stair tower in the left-hand angle, alongside a late 20th-century conservatory linked to a 19th-century brick and tile service extension.
The interior has not been inspected. A retaining wall in the cellar contains the capital of a column, which may be from the chantry chapel built in 1433 and demolished in 1756, and which originated from Twydall Manor House.
Local climate
Little London Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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