Allens Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1986. Farmhouse.
Allens Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- half-steeple-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Allens Hill Farmhouse, Buckland Road, Cliffe and Cliffe Woods
- OS grid reference
- TQ 730 765
- Coordinates
- 51.46131, 0.49023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Allens Hill Farmhouse is a hall house that dates from the late 15th century, with later cladding from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed and covered in brick and weatherboarding. The farmhouse features a steep plain tiled hipped roof with gablets and a tall brick ridge stack on the left side. It has two storeys and an irregular arrangement of casement windows. The entrance is located in a gabled two-storey shallow projection on the right, while there is a catslide outshut on the left. Inside, there is evidence of a screens passage on the ground floor, which includes a 4-centred service door and remnants of a screen. Additionally, there are two dragon beams in the south end and a 16th-century fireplace with a carved cambered wooden bressumer.
Local climate
Allens Hill Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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