Handcock's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Farmhouse.
Handcock's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-cornice-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Handcock's Farmhouse, Bethersden Road, Shadoxhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 963 386
- Coordinates
- 51.11336, 0.80431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Handcock's Farmhouse is a 15th century, two-bay Wealden hall-house with a later wing. The timber-framing is exposed, featuring curved braces and rough cast infilling in the first floor of the end window bays, which oversail. The front has been refaced; the central portion is clad in weatherboarding, the ground floor of the south-east wing is made of red brick, and the ground floor of the north-west wing has tarred weatherboarding. The eaves of the central portion overhang on curved braces, and the building has a steeply pitched hipped tiled roof. There are three casement windows and a bay window in the center of the ground floor.
Local climate
Handcock's Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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