Stocks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1962. Farmhouse.
Stocks Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rough-tin-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1962
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Stocks Farmhouse, Rye Road, Wittersham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 914 272
- Coordinates
- 51.0131, 0.72793
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stocks Farmhouse is an L-shaped timber-framed building that dates back to the 17th century or earlier, but it was refronted in the 18th century. The farmhouse has two storeys and attics, which are faced with fishscale tiles. It features a steeply pitched hipped tiled roof with one hipped dormer and a massive brick chimney stack. The exterior includes two triple casement windows. The entrance has a doorcase with a moulded architrave surround, topped by a flat hood supported on brackets, and a six-panel door.
Local climate
Stocks 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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