Great Paddock Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1957. Manor house.
Great Paddock Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- last-tallow-hazel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1957
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- Great Paddock Farmhouse, the Paddock, Challock
- OS grid reference
- TQ 991 502
- Coordinates
- 51.21665, 0.8504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Paddock Farmhouse is a manor house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of red brick and features a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and an attic above a basement, which is highlighted by a high weathered plinth. The gabled roof has a modillion eaves cornice and includes two 20th-century hipped dormers. There are projecting end stacks, with two coupled chimneys on the left and four octagonal chimneys on the right, each topped with oversailing moulded heads.
To the right, a lower hip and pentice cover a 19th-century extension made of chequered brick, which is also two storeys tall. The main block has regular fenestration with three 20th-century wooden mullioned windows set in chamfered brick surrounds, each with drip moulds above. The central entrance features a 20th-century plank door within a brick surround, also with a drip mould overhead. There is a 20th-century entry to the basement on the left. The 19th-century extension on the right has three irregularly placed casement windows. Both gable ends display prominent brick cornices.
Inside, the farmhouse has timbered partitions between rooms and an original staircase that spirals around a central decorated newel, leading into a square winder in a balustraded well.
Local climate
Great Paddock 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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