Kensham Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Farmhouse.
Kensham Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-solder-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Kensham Farmhouse, Sandhurst Road, Rolvenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 824 299
- Coordinates
- 51.03999, 0.6012
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kensham Farmhouse is an 18th-century building located on Sandhurst Road in Rolvenden. It is two storeys high, featuring a front elevation with a cement rendered ground floor and a weatherboarded first floor, topped with a tiled roof. The facade includes three casement windows and a central doorcase that has a flat wooden weatherhood. There is an external chimneystack, and the rear elevation is also weatherboarded, with a roof that has three hips.
Local climate
Kensham 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 greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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