Gorse Green Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. House.
Gorse Green Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- strange-paling-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gorse Green Farmhouse, Capel Road, Ruckinge
- OS grid reference
- TR 010 359
- Coordinates
- 51.08778, 0.86926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gorse Green Farmhouse is a house dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of red brick and timber framing, which is clad with tile hanging, and features a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a hipped roof, with chimneys at the right end and a double chimney at the left end. The facade has a regular arrangement of two wooden casements on each floor, along with a central boarded door that is topped by a flat hood. The farmhouse also has hipped return wings, creating a rectangular plan.
Local climate
Gorse Green Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% 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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