Marten Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Farmhouse.

Marten Farmhouse

WRENN ID
iron-brick-moss
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
Marten Farmhouse, High Halden
OS grid reference
TQ 920 379
Coordinates
51.10833, 0.74194
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Marten Farmhouse is an 18th-century building located in High Halden. It is constructed of red brick and stands two storeys tall, with a side elevation that is partly tile hung. The roof is half-hipped and covered with tiles. On the ground floor, there are three casement windows featuring cambered architraves. The farmhouse also includes a gabled weather-porch.

Local climate

Marten Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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