Down Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. House.
Down Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- distant-groin-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Down Farmhouse, Wye with Hinxhill
- OS grid reference
- TR 076 469
- Coordinates
- 51.18375, 0.9693
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Down Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 16th century or earlier. It is timber framed and covered with red brick and tile hanging, topped by a plain tiled roof. The building has a lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high with a hipped roof featuring gablets and a central left stack. There are three wooden casement windows on each floor, and a boarded door located to the centre left, which is sheltered by a flat hood supported by brackets. At the rear, there is a catslide outshot.
Local climate
Down Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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