Shorts Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.
Shorts Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-porch-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shorts Farmhouse, Tenterden Road, Biddenden, TN27 8DP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 851 352
- Coordinates
- 51.08674, 0.64292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shorts Farmhouse is a 17th-century building, originally of two storeys. The ground floor has been refaced with red brick, while the upper storey is tile-hung. The roof is half-hipped and tiled, featuring a very tall brick chimneystack. The farmhouse has two casement windows and a doorcase with a flat hood.
Local climate
Shorts 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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